Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could not override. With the 86th Congress, first session already past the midway point, the balanced budget appears not only possible, but probable...
...River of Viet Nam, also reaches from the Bering Strait to the Adriatic." Khrushchev himself, who did not go swimming, as usual put his presence to use. Barreling through Europe's wildest and remotest mountain valleys, he saluted the sinewy Albanians as "not large in size but bold in heart," and toured their few factories and roads (all built by Soviet technicians with Soviet funds). He also brought along his Defense Minister, Marshal Malinovsky, to play straight man for his warnings to the neighboring Greeks and Italians that "shortrange" missiles fired from Albania could wipe out their cities...
...Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, claim the funds, he would easily have to pay 8% to get in and out of the market...
After the monthly trustees' meeting last week, 350 officers, employees and guests of Manhattan's Union Dime Savings Bank gathered at the Hotel Pierre to celebrate a gala occasion. Union Dime was 100 years old, and over the years it had gone from piggy-bank size to the nation's 15th biggest mutual savings bank with deposits of $485 million. In a way too the party was in honor of a man. At 66, Union Dime's President John Wilbur Lewis had spent 48 years at the bank, helping it grow and growing with it until...
Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...