Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a violently anti-Communist speech last week. "The U.S.S.R. has not given up its hope to rule the world," said Socialist Deputy Chairman Josef Braun. "The occupation rights of our Western friends in Berlin are our only protection. We must remain firm." An owlish man in the audience rose to criticize West Germany's Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer for talking to Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago. "It's wrong to go hat in hand to aggressors," agreed another man. "The Russians pursue their ends with absolute brutality...
...Federal Reserve Board reported that February industrial production rose to 144, seasonally adjusted (1947-49 = 100). This is only three points under the record high set December...
...Private-housing starts rose with the improvement in the weather, on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,320,000 units, were 35% above a year...
Waste of Breath. Ever since then, the phrase has been a stick to whack business, whatever the provocation. In the Truman Administration many theorists in Washington charged that the steel companies were administering steel prices too low just to keep out competition that would come in if prices rose to a point attractive to new investment. Now the argument has shifted 180°. The steel companies and others are accused of administering steel prices too high, not reducing them to encourage greater sales and employment...
...present group of applicants has shown a corresponding gain in mental prowess. The median score of candidates on the mathematical part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test was 655--a gain of 20 points over the record high of the Class of '62. The median on the verbal section rose from...