Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rudy LaRusso, the Indians have posted a 7-4 record thus far, including impressive wins over Brigham Young and Canisius, and losses to Vanderbilt (which knocked off Kentucky), Butler, Bradley, and Holy Cross. In League play, the Green has squeaked past Yale, 52 to 51, and has soundly defeated Columbia and Cornell...
...third fatal radiation accident at Los Alamos, and the only one since 1946. Considering the laboratory's job (designing and making nuclear explosives), Dr. Shipman considers the record "fabulously good." People should get over the exaggerated fear of radiation, he insists. "We're going to have to live with it a long time-more and more as time goes on. It should not be invested with such an aura of mystery. You're just as dead if you get hit by a taxi...
...happy blend of year-end confidence and year-opening optimism brought a new high for the stock market last week. When the closing gong ended trading on Dec. 31. the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at an alltime record of 583.65. The year's gain in dollar value of the more than 5 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange was the largest in the Big Board's 166-year history, rising to about $275 billion from $196 billion at the end of 1957. Stock Exchange transactions totaled 747,058,306, the largest volume since...
...Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year output (217,282 cars), still has 24,000 dealer orders to fill. Ford and Chevy also reported hefty increases in December retail-truck deliveries. Chevy said truck sales in the first 20 days of December were...
...than a decade Morros went through the motions of espionage. He could tell the Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros...