Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pont from $56.7 million to a whopping $73.8 million. In the auto industry, General Motors roared ahead with profits of $189 million, $38 million better than in 1953, rang up the second highest first-quarter sales record (705,303 passenger cars) in history. Some companies had slipped. U.S. Steel dropped $4.6 million to $44.8 million, and the railroads were down. The pressure was also on the independent automakers, and they did poorly. Studebaker lost $6,000,000 and passed its dividend. Nash lost $750,000, Packard $380,000 during the first three months. Kaiser reported that it had lost...
...days there was near-bedlam in the Georgescus' big, well-appointed New York apartment; the living room was banked with flowers sent by well-wishers, the telephone rang and rang, letters and telegrams poured in from all over the country. Father, mother and sons were whisked from one radio and TV station to another for guest appearances. None of them seemed to mind. The boys were amazed and delighted by New York: "So organized, so civilized." The parents were amazed and delighted by their big handsome sons...
...mother's 13 children. To support them, Tomaso D'Alesandro, Tommy's father, swung a pick in a city rock quarry. Such work was not for junior. While still at night high school, he hung around the Third Ward Democratic headquarters, at election time rang door bells and passed handbills...
...returned to their apartment to find the door half open, blood on the floor, and blood on the wallpaper as high as their heads. In the corner, their poodle lay covered with blood, whimpering. One of his front teeth had been knocked out. In the empty apartment, the telephone rang insistently...
...strangely dissonant and have been described as both "Savagely primitive" and "godawful." Since few players know the original music, they must resort to improvising. This is especially difficult since, according to the terms of the gift, the bells must be played in the Russian manner. When the monks rang them, they kept the largest bell swinging continually, its deep bass forming a background for the rest of the weird chorus. Operators claim that once the big bell get going, they are unable to hear anything else...