Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALABAMA: 53,336 Negroes registered out of 516,245 eligible; nine rural counties have no Negro registrants; even industrial and partly unionized Jefferson County (Birmingham) registered only 7,000 Negroes out of 121,510 eligible...
...every 100 women who become pregnant, the statistics show, some 85 will give birth to live babies after about nine months, and five will bear premature babies, of which four will live. But in the remaining one-tenth of all pregnancies, the women will lose their children by involuntary abortion before they are mature enough to survive independently. Why? And what can be done about it? In Spontaneous and Habitual Abortion,* published this week (Blakiston; $11). Dr. Carl Theodore Javert. a busy, unorthodox
...hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted red with cinnabar, and they made concave mirrors of beautifully polished stone, perhaps for the purpose of starting fires by focusing the rays...
...only thanks," said Nelson Higgins, tears streaming down his cheeks. Just before the benediction, an elderly white woman stood up and said: "God bless you, Mr. Higgins." Later. Pastor Higgins announced that he had received three applications for membership, and asked if there were more. Nine people came forward. (By week's end, membership had reached 16, including four whites.) To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates. In all, the throng contributed...
...quarter earnings at $188 million, somewhat below the first quarter but still enough to push the company's first-half net to an alltime peak of $425 million, some $33 million better than 1956. On a smaller scale, California's Superior Oil Co. did even better, with nine-month (ending May 31) profits of $15.7 million (equal to $37.20 per share), for a 412% jump over the previous year...