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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food and related stores by 14%, but with many more new products to be distributed there has been an 18% expansion in the number of wholesaling concerns. Since 1951, old-fashioned general merchandise stores have declined 9%. But with more and more people on the go, restaurants are up 4%, automotive retailers 20%. Meanwhile, U.S. consumers, spending more on their persons and their surroundings, have caused the number of service trades firms to expand 18%. A,nd the rise...
...week-old steel strike began to cramp the nation's economy. The Federal Reserve Board reported that during August alone, industrial production declined on the basis of the 1947-49 average from the June alltime record...
...screen glamour boy (Kid Galahad), who won his wings as a fighter pilot (57 missions, seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif...
...army of about 4,800 was in position before the city at dawn. Had the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, waited for reinforcements, he might still have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge; the British held, then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds.) It was. Author Hibbert says, the death Wolfe always...
...their superiority over their decadent and vicious neighbors. An Etruscan says, "It's true that you Romans are generous and merciful. But you go about your deeds of kindness so ungraciously that you seem more brutal than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city...