Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone of LÓpez Mateos' first year, was a tough and successful fight to save the peso from devaluation. In the first six months of 1958, under free-spending President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a budget in the red by $66 million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade balance of $145 million...
Burnett pointed specifically at the big magazines' red-hot race for circulation and advertising, and suggested that its effects have hurt the editorial side. "I refer particularly to the mad race to provide the most of everything quantitative -more regional editions, more local editions, more split runs, more different and sometimes bizarre ad sizes, more circulation at any cost, and so many flips, flops, folds, inserts and coupons that many a magazine today looks like a convention issue of the gadget and gimmick news...
...album cover is a red sticker emblazoned with the record pitchman's call: "30 Complete Selections on 2 LPs, Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...
Water for Life. The data the scientists brought back to Dr. Strong proved worth the trouble. Inscribed on a thin strip of wax paper were spectroscopic readings of the light from Venus. They showed that when the sun's light passes through Venus' atmosphere, certain infra-red lines are partially absorbed, providing dramatic evidence that Venus' cloudy atmosphere contains water vapor...
...countries beforehand, arranged to borrow local classrooms, found English-speaking native families to take in his students (hotels are shunned). He got the school chartered by the New York Board of Regents, hired four top teachers. Among them: Ohio State Botanist Clarence E. Taft and Journalist-Author Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow. Jaeger put in $30,000 of his own money to make up the difference between tuition and cost...