Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting under a South African law that forbids serving liquor to nonwhites. Meanwhile, the government announced that because the defendants had not yet, during the long preliminary hearings, pleaded either guilty or not guilty, a new indictment would be filed. The 91 defendants were right back where they were nine months...
...power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea is to build a dam on the Columbia at Mica Creek, north of Revelstoke, B.C., to generate...
Married nearly nine years, Gary Grant and Betsy Drake decided to separate. "We have had, and shall always have, a deep love and respect for each other," they proclaimed, "but-alas-our marriage [Grant's third, her first] has not brought the happiness we expected...
...time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
Income Up. Equally good recovery news was the fact that personal income in September rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of $357.5 billion from $356.1 billion in August. This third consecutive record-breaking month made certain that 1958 would surpass 1957. For the first nine months of 1958 personal income has run at the rate of $351.6 billion, v. a rate of only $347.5 billion in 1957. Wage and salary disbursements in September rose $40 million to a rate of $239.1 billion...