Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards, the London Economist is as out of place on U.S. newsstands as the Congressional Record in Piccadilly Circus. Devotedly British, the 116-year-old weekly Economist is scholarly and staid in its content, a bit stuffy in its appearance, and it usually devotes only five or six pages per issue to the U.S. (in "American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan sold...
...Pacific Northwest lumber industry, in a price recession since July, noted a turn-around in buying for 1960 construction. Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD merger with Oliver Corp. will bring S-P into the farm-equipment business. S-P proposes to buy Oliver for $83 million, giving Oliver stockholders 7/10 of a share of Studebaker-Packard for every share of Oliver, plus $15 per share in cash...
Final totals in the drive, which netted $21,657.51, are as follows: Eliot, $2797; Leverett, $1914 ($5.98 per capita); the Yard, $6175 ($5.32); Quincy, $1219 ($5.30); Winthrop, $1947 ($5.15); Kirkland, $1748 ($4.89); Dunster, $1700 ($4.87); Claverly, $604 ($4.61); Adams, $1429 ($4.30); Lowell...
...final night of solicitation, Eliot House moved up from second place to win the $20 worth of phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the largest rate of per capita giving in the Combined Charities Drive. The Eliot House average was $6.53, nearly double the winning figure of last year...