Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meantime, at Franco's insistence, agriculture has been neglected for industry. Last year's harvest of grain and oranges was only 11% above prewar output, while Spain's population is now 20% bigger than before the war. The cost of living has jumped 40% in the past two years without any compensating increase in wages. And the European Common Market is expected to spell further trouble for Spain's foreign trade, already...
...Mormon interpretation of the curse of Canaan . . . together with unauthorized, but widely accepted statements by [Mormon] leaders in years past, has led to the view among many Mormon adherents that birth into any race other than white is a result of inferior performance in pre-earth life, and that by righteous living dark-skinned races may again become 'white and delightsome...
...changing economy. They see basic structural changes in the labor picture caused by increased automation, corporate decentralization, labor-force immobility, and the surge of new workers from the postwar baby crop. It is still too early to be certain. Yet the labor market has been relatively stable over the past several months, with only modest improvement, and administration economists do not see much prospect of unemployment dropping below the 5½% line until late fall, or possibly early next year...
Start at the Bottom. Though they have been in business 26 years, it is only in the past several years that Unterberg, Towbin has won star billing. Manhattan-born Dutch Unterberg, 57, studied banking in Europe, started a one-man, over-the-counter firm in 1932, after the brokerage firm he was with dissolved. Brooklyn-born Partner Towbin, 48, went to Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Business School, got a job with Unterberg at $11 a week...
...hearings in Seattle and Juneau last week, a Senate Commerce subcommittee stewed over the biggest economic problem of the nation's 49th state. The great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska's $146 million annual civilian income, are on the verge of destruction. In the past 23 years, the pack has slipped from 8,500,000 cases to 3,000,000 cases in 1958. This year the outlook is for a bare 1,800,000, the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records...