Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the free-market rate of the Turkish lira sagged to nine to the dollar (the official rate: 2.8 to $1). The cost of living has been rising 30% a year for the last three years. Coffee is almost unobtainable. Hardships are greatest in the cities, where a laborer must work three days to buy a pair of shoes, and a tourist at the bar of the new Istanbul Hilton Hotel pays six liras-almost a workingman's entire one-day pay-for a martini...
...same office. "Anybody who shows any spirit goes out," says a British observer. Because 90 Democratic Deputies showed enough spirit to object to his quick decree of martial law after the riots, Menderes last week fired one of their leaders out of the party central committee, later expelled nine other Deputies from the party. Next day, ten more Deputies quit the party with an angry cry of "dictatorship." But even though his popular and political support may have slumped, there are no Turks in view to challenge Menderes for the right to govern Turkey...
...Deputies returned to their constituencies to consider the fate of France's 21st government in nine years. In their absence, Premier Faure, to present returning Deputies with the sense of something being accomplished, pushed and prodded until at last he was able to announce that the long-promised throne council had been set up to govern Morocco...
...Beck, is to "take the steam out of successive attacks," which occur in 50% to 80% of coronary cases, with the chances of survival steadily decreasing. Said he to reporters: "Coronary surgery can't cure, but it ... prolongs the patient's life and makes him more comfortable. Nine of ten patients who receive the operation are back at work and free or almost free of pain." He added that Ike's doctors probably would not take to his suggestion because "they are not converts to heart surgery...
...steel, 1955 is likely to be a record year, with steelmen predicting 115 million tons, some 3,500,000 tons above the previous 1953 peak. Reported Republic Steel: a nine-month profit of $63 million on sales of $872 million, with enough orders on hand to keep production rolling at capacity through the first half...