Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said a top Government economist last week, "the 1953 outlook is brighter now than it was two months ago." There were plenty of figures to back up Washington's optimism. In May, the Commerce Department reported, department-store sales hit the highest level ever, except in the war-scare months of July 1950 and June 1951. Personal income was still rising, industrial production (242 on the Federal Reserve index) was within a hair of its peacetime high, and a record of $12.6 billion in new construction was started in 1953's first five months, up 6% from...
...fighter? . . . For money. For this car and these clothes. That's all I'm in it for." But before this cold logic douses their brief affair, Laine does a portrait of Baby. She paints him bloody-faced amid a crisscross of ring ropes. "You scare me out of ten years' growth," Baby says when he sees it. "You want to get me killed." But it is Baby who does the killing, without intending it, in his next fight; and the splatter of headlines in the midnight papers about the man he killed in the prize ring puts...
...unlikely at the moment. In recent weeks some of Perón's bitterest enemies-students and sons of wealthy ranchers-have tried to blast loose Perón's grip by setting off 15 homemade bombs in Buenos Aires. They gave Perón a real scare; police seized 25 machine guns, 600 rifles and pistols, more than a ton of explosives. But Perón, who blamed the bombings on foreigners and evil capitalists, once more seems firmly in the saddle...
...from Cornell gave Princeton its closest scare of the afternoon when its desperate sprint brought it but five feet from the Tiger bow on the finish
Campbell said that the decline was caused by an ease in the draft scare. He was optimistic about the final total and felt that the decline in students registering now has been less than in previous years...