Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes wore thin as the squalid facts about Barney Baker piled inexorably up in the hearing's record. Items...
...troops, threatened to reopen the debate at the next regular Assembly session (Sept. 16). From the Israelis came the bitter complaint that "This makes the Middle East's prime troublemakers-Nasser and the Arab League -into its policemen." But in the last analysis, nobody wanted to go on record as opposing an Arab solution to Arab problems, and when it came to a vote the resolution passed...
...York Yacht Club cruise, old Vim beat the new boats handsomely. Then last week, Weatherly came alive, beat both Vim and Columbia. The trials ended with each of the three leaders having beaten the others in match races, but Weatherly, by winning its last five races, sported the best record. Won-lost standings: Weatherly 6-2, Columbia 5-3, Vim 5-3, Easterner 0-8. With so little to choose between the top three, the selection committee scheduled a final trial series beginning Labor...
...Personal income rose to an annual rate of $354.5 billion in July, highest in history. The new level was $2.5 billion higher than in June and $2.4 billion higher than the previous record of $352.1 billion, also set in August 1957. Main reasons for the jump: a $1 billion rise in private-industry payrolls, plus another $1 billion increase in the federal payroll. ¶ Housing starts rose to an annual rate of almost 1,160,000 in July, 14% higher than the rate in July 1957 and the highest in 2½ years. FHA, VA and conventionally financed housing...
...paid out in the same period of 1957, despite all the smoke and fire over reduced earnings. ¶ Department store sales for July climbed to 140% of the 1947-49 average, up from 133% in June. At the new level sales are only four points below the alltime record set a year ago this month. ¶ Steel production was scheduled to rise for the sixth consecutive week to 61.4% of capacity, reflecting an earlier-than-expected fall pickup in orders...