Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Independent Now." Next day De Gaulle arrived. Pausing en route in desert Mauritania-poorest of the Community's twelve states-he had answered his hosts' independence talk by saying: "You are independent now. The Community is going to change and develop, but we shall make the changes together...
...cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...
...YORK, November 6-The dismal 1959 cross country season ended today in dull cloudy weather at New York's Van Cortlandt Park. In one of its poorest showings of recent years, the Crimson finished seventh in the annual Heptagonal Game...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...condition that the vote settle the question "once and for all." Last week, after what one associate called "quite an emotional wrench," Muñoz threw his support behind a new idea: a proposal to Congress that when per-capita income in Puerto Rico equals that of the poorest state (Mississippi's $1,053 v. Puerto Rico's $480), Congress will consider Puerto Rico's tax structure and give the islanders a chance to vote on their "basic terms of association" with...