Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wait for Autumn. Last month India's able, tough-talking Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari slapped a ban on all imports requiring foreign exchange unless the sellers agreed to payment deferments of from seven to nine years. British, Italian and West German suppliers responded coolly, though some West Germans are ready to offer goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant...
Peking announced that 2,000,000 workers had been pressed into flood-fighting work, carefully refrained from reporting death tolls (estimated to run into scores of thousands), but eulogized nine party members killed while fighting flood waters in Kwangtung. In Shantung the rains fell steadily for a fortnight; in Kwangtung and Kwangsi, in South China, it rained for 22 days. Shanghai reported the worst rains in 80 years...
Political tensions arise because of the uneven distribution of this land among the peoples of the earth. Whereas Canada has 22 acres per person, the United States has between six and nine for each citizen, some nations such as India and Japan, have only a fraction of an acre for each...
...Aeronautics Board help, could then boost feeder traffic, although many lines will still need subsidies for years to come. Even so, few feeders can raise the cash to buy the Fokker. Of 35 firm F-27 orders, says Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President G. Robert Henry, only nine have been completely financed. Fairchild has taken the remaining orders largely "on good faith." The feeders would also like to buy France's speedy (500 m.p.h.) Caravelle pure jet. But only San Diego's Pacific Southwest Airlines, with three Caravelles on order (at $1,950,000 apiece...
Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...