Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan's hot, dusty capital last week, the students of Karachi University were still brooding over the posting of the worst examination results in the school's nine-year history. Fully 80% of the student body had failed one or more courses, and most of the failures were boys. The reason? Girls...
...Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, Belgian Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver (rhymes with driver) broadcast the most conciliatory message yet to the freedom-hungry Congolese. But the words he used, though unthinkable a year ago, already seemed to come too late...
...country's economic situation today?" crowed the People's Daily: "Excellent, excellent, excellent." And out poured the mixture as before-a jumble of percentages with no base points and wildly improbable production figures. The new claims: for the first nine months of 1959, industrial production was running 45.6% higher than last year, steel production 67% and coal production 72%. Ironore production, added Peking, stood at 76.5 million tons, three times the figure for all of 1958. And just to show that nothing is too small to be transformed by the Marxist miracle, Mao's drumbeaters reported that...
...first trickles of third-quarter earnings reports from industry's accountants were uniformly good. Thanks to big defense orders and strong consumer sales, General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner was able to announce record nine-month earnings of $189,512,000, up 17% to $2.16 per share for the nation's biggest electrical-equipment firm. Giant International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared...
...write in and say you don't drink Irish, we may send your name to a man who does. It will be like the buddy system, like boy scouts helping each other to swim." Irish whiskey sales in the U.S.? Up 60% in the first nine months of this year, to 30,000 cases...