Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro ($6,500,-ooo...
...much of 1952's production was in peacetime goods which the U.S. could afford to do without. The U.S. got 4,300,-ooo new autos, although only 3,000,000 had been scheduled for production. But out of 12,000 military aircraft called for, only 9,000 were completed. Sample bottleneck: for lack of a small electronic part, engines could not be delivered to North American Aviation and powerless Sabre jets had to be lined up in long rows outside the plant. War production fell so far behind schedule that the schedules themselves were cut during the year...
...ranging from six to 20 years. Once the certificates are cashed, I.D.S. gets back about one-third of the money, on average, to reinvest in more certificates or one of three mutual funds it operates. Through these-Investors Mutual, Investors Selective Fund Investors Stock Fund-it owns $386 944 -ooo worth of U.S. securities, second only to Massachusetts Investors Trust (TIME April 9, 1951) in the mutual-fund field...
...spring of 1948, Stanky was a fallen idol in Rickey's eyes. Rickey had broken baseball's color line with the importation of hard-hitting Jackie Robinson, and, as it happened, Robinson was a better second baseman than Eddie Stanky. The Boston Braves jumped ($100,-ooo worth) at the chance to get Stanky, hoping that his "intangibles" would perk up a team perennially in the shadow of the glamorous Red Sox. Before leaving Brooklyn, Eddie broke with his good friend Durocher, who had taken Rickey's side against Stanky in a salary dispute. Durocher," Stanky cried, "knifed...