Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days are long past when German opinion was hostile to remilitarization: according to a poll, 73% of West Germans favor a German share in Europe's defense. Also disappearing are some of the limitations on German armament manufacturing...
Around the walled ring at Xajay bull-breeding ranch in Queretaro, Mexico this week, cowhands watched critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
...Allen's conclusions were confirmed when Pioneer IV soared past the moon and into orbit around the sun. Its tiny, 1-lb. radio transmitter, which was followed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory's receiving stations for 400,000 miles, reported that the outer radiation belt does not die off evenly. Beyond it are irregular bursts of radiation that may be clouds of electrons and protons arriving fresh from the sun. Such invisible clouds in space may prove serious hazards for future deep-space voyagers...
Chrysler's President L. L. Colbert told stockholders that first-quarter earnings exceeded the $1.30 per share reported in the company's best and final quarter last year. Chrysler's retail sales from April 10 to April 20 were the highest in the past 17 months. Colbert said "considerable improvement" in earnings can be expected in the second quarter, when Chrysler plans to boost production to 300,000 cars and trucks, 40% above the first quarter...
...investors have been stepping up their buying of European securities for the past six months. The largest single stock purchase by 26 major U.S. funds in the fourth quarter of 1958 was the holding company for Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, the G.E. of Holland. So many orders are going into London from the U.S. that at least two London brokers are keeping their trading desks open until 8:30 p.m. to handle orders to buy British securities. The Frankfurt stock exchange, which closes before the New York Stock Exchange opens because of the time difference, is thinking of reopening later...