Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady's Not For Burning will be brought to Broadway next fall by the Theatre Guild. A Phoenix Too Frequent, a one-acter, now rehearsing in New York for a late April opening, will be his first to reach...
...Brawner found himself a yard behind right at the outset. After the first 100 yds., he began to pull up. Verdeur more than held his own on the turns at the end of the 25-yd. pool, but Brawner gained steadily on the straightaway. With his longer reach and the airfoam floating ride he gets, he was using only three strokes to the champion's five...
...women's tournament, lanky, 22-year-old Althea Gibson became the first Negro ever to reach the finals in a national championship sponsored by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. Although she lost out next day, her performance made it possible that she would also become the first Negro ever to play in the nationals at Forest Hills this summer...
...many carloads of onions poured in and jammed railroad yards and warehouses last week that the Association of American Railroads slapped an embargo on further shipments. Reason for the glut: farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded to 44? last week, lowest price since trading began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
...outright, often vigorous pro-church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous boredom...