Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
...flock to Florida in the next twelve months-about 1,000,000 more than in the past year. To house the horde, the sun-blessed state is basking in her greatest building boom. In Miami alone, $75 million is going into new tourist facilities, including four new luxury hotels, nine Cadillac-class motels and 59 apartment buildings...
DIVIDEND PAYMENTS are rising in spite of worry over possible profits squeeze. In first nine months of 1957, cash dividends on New York Stock Exchange stocks hit record $6.4 billion v. $6 billion in same 1956 period. In all, 439 big-board stocks paid higher dividends than before, 430 paid as much, only 103 paid less...
...itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit of $1,257,000 last year, another $1,248,861 deficit for the first nine months...
Peter Coe, a Middlebury reserve guard, led his team's scoring with 14 points. He was followed by the co-captain, Hugh Greer, who made 13. Another reserve, Howard Wiley, scored ten points, followed by starting center Charles Rand with nine...