Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force recovery team continued their hunt for H-bomb parts and contaminated debris scattered by the crash of a B-52 SAC bomber last month. Searchers armed with scintillation counters came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger...
...converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid by George Liebes of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus for four male pelts, each more than 5 ft. long and 30 in. wide...
...nearly half a century, the Cleveland schools suffered from a combination of civic complacency, the steady flight of middle-class whites to the suburbs, and the limiting effects of a debt-free, pay-as-you-go school budget policy. By 1964, the city was spending only $450 per student annually on education, compared with $850 in nearby Shaker Heights. As a result, half of Cleveland's students were in schools more than 50 years old. Only two high schools offered vocational training-and less than a third of all graduates were able to find jobs. None of the city...
...both lender and borrower but have also devised faster and cheaper ways to operate. While FHA generally takes nearly two weeks to pass on an application for home-loan insurance, M.G.I.C. makes up its mind in 24 hours, charges only about half of FHA's costly ½%-per-year premium on the declining balance of loans...
...disease takes the form of a deficiency in antihemophilic globulin--Factor VIII. In normal humans the Factor VIII level in the blood stream ranges from 50 to 200 per cent. Hemophiliacs generally have a Factor VIII level of less than 25 per cent...