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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Spending. The White House announced that procurement orders would be placed at an average rate of $2.3 billion a month in 1958's first half, nearly double the pace of 1957's last half...
...fire, too) with a few months' experience. One day, at Chicago's Riverview Amusement Park, he overate. "I'd already swallowed that bayonet five times that day," he recalled later. "You're only supposed to do it a few times a week." At any rate, when he tried to swallow that bayonet, almost a foot of it slipped down all right and then it stuck. The crowd began to titter and Andy panicked. Instead of pulling the bayonet out and starting again, he tried to force it. Though it hurt a bit, he got through...
...still secret) would make any difference to the movement. Said Zarur: "Brothers, we will go on being God's workers. Our ideal may even reach inhabitants of other planets." Other planets have shown no interest, but on this one, the Legion is enrolling new members at the rate...
...kroner, a new car represents almost 100 weeks' wages for the average Czech worker. In the case of the Tatra, which the Czechs intend to produce again this year after a long interruption, the price will be 200,000 kroner-$28,000 at the official exchange rate...
Elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain, the situation is even blacker. Secondhand autos of every make, year and origin are quickly snapped up at astronomical prices, e.g., $5,000 for a tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new Warszawa represents 250 weeks' work for a Pole. Hungarians, Bulgarians and Rumanians, who manufacture no cars of their own, must set their sights on imported Russian Pobedas, which cost them the equivalent of from 130 weeks' work to 750 weeks' work (in Rumania), depending on the currency...