Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...
...strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point. Dodger pitchers last week breezed past the major-league-team strikeout record of 896 set by the Detroit Tigers...
...credo of Minoru Yamasaki, who at 46 is turning out some of the gayest and most graceful buildings in the U.S. In recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot in a suburb just north...
...Britain, 42 mutual funds have sprung up (four of them in the past 15 months), offering to invest sums as small as 38?. With 400,000 buyers enrolled, British fund assets jumped 50% in the past year alone, to $336 million. Among newcomers to the capitalist class are thousands who still have no bank accounts. A poll of investors showed that one-fourth left school in the grammar grades. So radically has the British attitude toward buying shares in capitalism changed that even the Laborite Daily Herald in its financial column now urges mutual funds as a good place...
...highs, all aircraft stocks are well down. General Dynamics has dropped from 66½ to 48½, Martin from 62½ to 38¼, Douglas from 59¼ to 46, North American from 52⅝ to' 37¼, Grumman from 30¼ to 24⅜. In the past fortnight, nine aircraft stocks scraped new 1959 lows. Among them: McDonnell, Bell, Temco, Northrop, United Aircraft...