Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whiffing a good thing, Upjohn sent scouts to the Big Cypress Reservation near Immokalee, found a tranquil oldster (74) who still hunts, fishes and farms all day without tiring. Billie was free to talk commerce, it developed, because he got religion 14 years ago and quit practice to become a Baptist minister. Last month Upjohn flew Billie in a private plane to Kalamazoo, there besought him (with a new hearing aid and a little cash) to demonstrate his lore...
...Site. After working for a while near Building B, the diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...
Over the years Avery clarified his colors, refined his images to near abstractions. "I always take something out of my pictures," he explains. The resulting discipline on occasions allows Avery to produce prodigiously. "He told me he thought he had exhausted all the Provincetown subjects," recalls Gallery Owner
...sales and new orders are on the rise. Washington reported that from May to July, manufacturers' sales rose $1.1 billion, to $26.3 billion. New orders to manufacturers also climbed $1.3 billion to $26.3 billion. Meantime, the rate of inventory liquidation slowed considerably, a sign that the day is near when manufacturers and retailers will stop living off the shelf, start replenishing stocks with fresh orders. The book value of manufacturers' inventories dipped $400 million in July, far less than the $700 million drop in June. The figure was down to $49.8 billion...
...radiomen tried. Nobody heard the signal. Next afternoon Navy code crackers at Guam broke a report from a Japanese submarine, saying it had sunk a battleship of the Idaho class in the exact position where Indianapolis should have been. Even though old battleship Idaho was near by, nobody gave it a second thought-the Japs were always making such claims. Nobody stopped to figure that with his sea-snail's eye-view, a Jap sub commander could mistake Indianapolis for Idaho...