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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the flight of time, some tissues become drier and infiltrated with fat. Blood vessels harden (arteriosclerosis). Muscles weaken. Bones grow brittle. Eyes and ears gradually fail, from a number of complex, minute structural changes. Ironically, the teeth-such as are left of them -become more resistant to decay in later life. On empirical evidence, Shakespeare anticipated microanatomy when he said that the oldster is "sans taste," for the average number of taste buds is 208 during the prime of life, but only 88 after...
...undercapitalized farms. Its top crop is tobacco (more than half the U.S. output), which exhausts the soil, brings small profits to the farmer. North Carolina's manufacturing is largely in textiles, a low-wage, boom-or-bust industry. Among the states, North Carolina stood No. i in the number of farm residents (1.4 million), No. 48 in the average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers ($47.88). It was clear to Hodges what North Carolina needed. "We had to get our farmers to diversify, to go into other businesses. But where were they to get the capital...
...they had, says Lanston, the Treasury issue could not have been successful, since neither banks, institutions, nor individuals had enough cash surplus to invest in Government bonds. While some speculation may have been excessive, says Lanston, the excesses tend to be self-correcting. "I am sure that a number of speculators will not want to try again soon. Their losses were too severe...
...Tokyo exchange set two records in a week. The number of shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times...
Cambridge police apprehended the men shortly after the incident, since a passer-by had taken down the license number of their car. Two of the men are being detained in the Cambridge city jail, while the third, a student at the M.I.T. night school, was released on $1,700 bail...