Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise in industrial production and stabilization of the lira. Britain's rundown industrial machine was gradually winding up again. In two months, production in Western Germany climbed 20%, bringing it to 60% of the 1936 level. More important, Ruhr iron and steel production set a new postwar record...
...both marriages and divorces dropped off from 1946's record highs, the Federal Security Agency reported. Marriages were down to 1,992,354, from 1946's 2,291,045. There were approximately 25% fewer divorces...
...George Hamilton ("Ozzie") Osborne, 34, climbed down from his perch 200 feet above Long Beach's Virginia Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...
...Chicago last week, the price of cash corn suddenly tumbled nearly 14? a bushel. One reason: private estimates had put the record 1948 crop at 3,540,602,000 bushels, 34 million bushels greater than the Department of Agriculture's latest forecast...
...have produced 40 volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...