Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia's eyes, Washington had refused to grant him the $100 million he wanted as a stabilization fund for the shaky Philippine peso. (Officially valued at 50?, the peso can be bought almost anywhere in Southeast Asia for a quarter...
...heard Edward Elgar's massive oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. Since then, Gerontius has remained one of the most widely praised-and least frequently heard -monuments of English music. Last week Manhattan concertgoers had a chance to hear the full Gerontius score for the first time in a quarter-century. The occasion: a performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir under Guest Conductor Sir John Barbirolli...
...opens, there is reason for confidence," said Dwight Eisenhower this week in his sixth annual Economic Report to the Congress. "The improvement in business activity which began in the second quarter of last year will be extended in the months ahead." Happily ticking off the indicators of a recession-recovered economy, he felt free to concentrate on the foe-inflation-which he has consistently named as the chief threat to long-term U.S. economic health...
...spalpeen, at the Dublin General Post Office during the 1916 Rising. The story goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked him in the backside and told him to go home because he was too young to have fought. De Valera's right-hand man for a quarter of a century, Lemass has managed to steer clear of The Long Fella's ancient political quarrels, concentrate instead on the practical business of government...
...first tourist to the balmy island of Cuba, went ashore Oct. 28, 1492, sword in one hand, cross in the other, saying: "The most beautiful land human eyes have ever beheld." The gentle Siboney Indians left their hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based...