Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain, after a promising start, was hit by a worldwide slump in raw material prices which sent the whole sterling area sliding downhill, from an EPU surplus of $726 million in April 1951 to a net cumulative loss of $860 million at last month's audit. Desperately, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler slashed Britain's trade "liberalization" from 90% to a worse-than-ever...
...I.P.R. activities behind a screen of non-Communist officials and contributors to the institute. To the I.P.R. protest that most writing in the institute's periodicals was nonCommunist, the committee answered: "NonCommunist or 'neutral writing' plus . . . pro-Communist writing means, whatever the exact percentages, a net pro-Communist effect...
...Reds had the spare parts). Air intelligence officers believed that hundreds of small North Korean factories (making small arms, small-caliber ammo, grenades, bayonets, uniforms, canteens, shoes) and ordnance shops (repairing trucks, tanks, artillery and locomotives) had been shut down, and that the enemy's radar net had been forced to switch to auxiliary generators, which are at the mercy of fuel deliveries...
...also felt compelled to chalk up part of their defeats to the heat. The heat made no difference to Killer Connolly. Cool and unperturbed, despite a painfully sore shoulder, she kept dancing her little baseline jig, running her rivals ragged with hard-hit placements, only occasionally coming to the net to volley...
...first set she broke through Brough's service to win 7-5. After losing the first two games of the second set, she settled down to win five straight games before dropping one. Moments later, Maureen's unnerved opponent fluffed a service return into the net and the match was over, 7-5, 6-3. Crying "Whoopee!", Britain's new champion, its second youngest American titlist,* shook hands with Loser Brough and raced happily to take the trophy plate from the Duchess of Kent...