Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
...many men were back at work that unemployment dropped sharply in 90% of the 149 major U.S. industrial areas during the two-month period ended in mid-May. Across the land, 33 employment areas were changed to better classifications on the Labor Department's list, and 14 were removed from the surplus-labor category altogether...
...funds have become so popular that they have blossomed with all kinds of new plans. The most controversial plan-and one that M.I.T. has shunned-is the contractual plan, under which a customer signs for regular monthly payments over a period of years (usually ten). The catch is that an investor who puts in $1,200 for the first year of a $100-a-month ten-year contractual plan is docked for about $500, or half the entire ten-year commission, in the first year. If the investor drops out in the first year, he loses most...
...nothing to sell except service," said Lewis. He was one of the first to install business machines to help tellers figure accounts rapidly, in 1956 ordered an all-electronic bookkeeping system. And when most banks limited the number of checks a depositor could issue without charge in any one month, Lewis' slogan was "checks without charge for household bills...
...Browns, the Bevingtons are an attractive young couple in their mid-twenties. A handsome man with sandy brown hair, Bevington has been recommended for appointment as an Instructor in English, to be effective July 1, and he will receive his Ph.D. this month. He is a non-resident tutor at Kirkland House. His wife, a pretty brunette, has her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Radcliffe and is now working toward a Doctorate in Education at the School of Education, where she is a teaching fellow...