Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later the Labor Department backed up the President's hope that the economy has just about stopped slipping. New claims for unemployment compensation, the department reported, edged downward for the second week in a row, reaching a 1958 low of 404,500 in the third week of March. Another hopeful sign was an upturn in machine-tool orders, considered an important economic indicator. And one major segment of the economy was enjoying a springtime bloom of prosperity: the Agriculture Department announced that farm prices rose 4% from February to March, with livestock, fruit, potatoes and eggs leading...
...held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Now Bulganin took a seat in the second row...
There was a moment of stunned silence. Then reporters ran for their telephones; the Deputies rose clapping their hands. In his second-row seat on the platform, wearing a frozen smile. Bulganin joined in the applause for his successor. Khrushchev himself stood for seconds with head bowed until, unable to control himself, he clasped his hands over his head and grinned in a boxer's triumphal salute...
...time he had recourse to Stalin's murderous methods of eliminating rivals. When he joined with Molotov and Kaganovich to force Malenkov out of the premiership in 1955, the ousted Malenkov was merely demoted to the harmless Ministry of Electric Power Stations, and kept around for the back row of group pictures. With the help of Marshal Zhukov, Khrushchev defeated last year's drive by Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed...
...huge birthday cake in Chicago's International Amphitheatre. Before more than 11.500 onlookers, a series of historical tableaux reincarnated yesteryear's fiery crusaders (Billy Sunday, Dwight Moody) and tycoon benefactors (Marshall Field, Colonel McCormick). plus scenes from the Civil War, the Great Chicago Fire and old Skid Row days. It was all part of the jazzy ("Y's UP") 100th anniversary celebration of Chicago's Y.M.C.A...