Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tammy (Debbie Reynolds; Coral). "The old booty owl hooty-hoots to the dove," hoots Cinemactress Reynolds in this ballad about a teen-ager who finds love in the bayou. Mrs. Eddie Fisher's record is a fast-moving bestseller, but as slushy as those bayous in October...
...Investment. As its answer to question 3, the fund ended fiscal 1957 with a currency-supporting record that topped the entire previous total of business in its ten-year career. To halt a run on sterling in the Suez crisis, the fund gave the United Kingdom a dollar loan of $561.5 million and stand-by credit of $739 million, its biggest single deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major...
...CONSUMERS are unpeeling their bankrolls at record rates. Commerce Department says Americans are spending 68% of their disposable income in retail stores, v. 66% a year ago. With personal income up 6% over last year (2% more in actual purchasing power), last month's retail sales jumped 9% over August...
...sorghum. For the first time, the sorghum crop in Kansas was bigger than wheat-by 20 million bu. Result: with sorghum selling at $1.57 per cwt. on the free market and Government price supports at $1.83 per cwt., the U.S. will have to buy around 40% of the record crop at a cost of some $183 million in price supports. Then it will have to store the sorghum (if it can find space in wheat-filled granaries) at added expense until it can dispose...
Pete Reider, varsity ace who holds the record over the 4.1 mile course, nearly suffered defeat, as he had his hands full with Maine's ace, Dan Daly...