Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also passed at last night's meeting was a recommendation that the number of P.T. credits required of freshmen be reduced in the case of students working on regular jobs nine hours a week...
...cause American Metal Co., Ltd., one of the biggest international producers of lead, zinc, silver and copper, to merge with fast-growing Climax Molybdenum Co. American will swap $141.3 million worth of stock for Climax, merge it into new company called American Metal Climax, Inc. American Metal's nine-month earnings slipped to $8,579,062 from last year's $14,869,617, but Climax's net for same period rose to $11,443,953 from...
...supply U.S. housewives on washday, six U.S. companies and nine competing foreign nations manufacture spring-operated clothespins at the rate of 791 million a year. Last week, to please the six U.S. companies-and protect a market worth less than $4,000,000-at the risk of offending Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Yugoslavia and five others, President Eisenhower doubled the tariff on imports of spring clothespins to the U.S. Concurring in a Tariff Commission finding that domestic industry was "injured" by rising imports, he raised the tariff from 10? per gross to 20? per gross, to give "appropriate relief...
...drain on Japan's foreign-exchange reserves reduced them from $1.5 billion at the end of 1956 to $875 million last month (or to $270 million, excluding frozen, debts and import contracts still to be paid). In addition, home-front inflation has hiked the cost of living nine points since 1953, with a 5.2% rise in retail prices alone since last year...
...SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 17--Governor Orval Faubus said today the desegregation deadlock in Little Rock can be resolved only by the voluntary withdrawal of the nine Negro children from Central High School...