Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the great flood of 1949, the highest and most disastrous in 20 years, had passed its crest. As the waters subsided, the misery they had created grew. In the six southern provinces still under their sway, the Nationalists reported 10 million people in need of flood relief...
...last week's test flight, the Jetliner's speed was held down to 317 m.p.h. Jam-packed with testing instruments, the plane is slated for months of rigorous shakedown flights; within six months a second Jetliner is expected to be ready for additional tests...
...true to form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual earnest, crafty and intelligent fight. He beat game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human...
Narrow & Deep. Yet it was not until 1909, six years before his death (at 91), that Fabre first attracted wide popular attention in his native France. In the U.S., although respect for him in scientific circles has always been deep, popular readership has been comparatively narrow; the only U.S. translations of his works are lengthy studies of single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist...
Railroadmen knew that this was true. The net income of Class I railroads had dropped from $262 million in 1948's first half to $173 million in the first six months this year. Much of the diverted freight was picked up by truckers. They netted $40.5 million in 1947, nearly doubled that last year with $73.4 million, and their traffic was still rising...