Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third service team did not fare so well. Maintaining its streak of bad luck, Navy (2-3-1) was leading Notre Dame (2-3) until a fourth-quarter touchdown tied the score at 22-22. Then, with 32 seconds to go, Notre Dame's massive (6 ft., 225 lbs.) End Monty Stickles tried a field goal from the Navy 33, buried his head in a teammate's chest until he heard the roar of the hometown South Bend crowd that announced he had booted his team to a 25-22 victory in one of the year...
...their data, the researchers combed the medical histories of 96 New York Telephone Co. switchboard operators and 116 craftsmen (linemen and installation workers) for 20 years back, then followed the cases for five years more. In that quarter-century, the women averaged 64 illnesses, with 313 days lost from work, v. the men's 37 illnesses and 124 days lost. Menstrual disturbances could not explain this huge difference; they accounted for less than one-fourteenth of female illness. In fact, the same types of illness-respiratory infections, stomach upsets, muscle pains and skin conditions -explained most of the absenteeism...
...conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians said, caused radio signals to be sent to the earth and enabled Soviet scientists more than a quarter of a million miles away to control the picture-snapping and photo-finishing process on the far side of the moon...
...into the U.S. economy. Steelworkers have lost $1.1 billion in wages; steel companies, $3.3 billion in sales; the Government, $710 million in taxes; the nation, 30.9 million tons of steel production. The Commerce Department estimated that the rate of the gross national product dropped $3.5 billion in the third quarter. An index of the eight key economic barometers fell farther in the first three months of the strike than during the first three months of the 1957 recession. The U.S. faced widespread shutdowns in industries that depend on the basic metal...
Amidst the third-quarter earnings reports and stock-split announcements last week there was a standout: Westinghouse Electric Corp. With the company's nine months' earnings soaring ($3.17 per share v. $2.79 in 1958) on only slightly higher sales than last year, its directors recommended a two-for-one stock split, boosted the annual dividend rate from $2 to $2.40. For Westinghouse, the nation's oldest (73 years) and second largest electrical equipment maker (first: General Electric), the split climaxed a three-year drive to reorganize the company and recover from a crippling five-month...