Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film version of Novelist Arthur Hailey's 1965 bestseller about clean towels and dirty people in a New Orleans hotel is more worthy of a stopover than the book. The improvement is due mainly to Director Richard Quine's smoothly geared meshing of the various subplots and solid performances by Rod Taylor, Michael Rennie, Merle Oberon, Karl Maiden...
Their most spectacular find occurred on May 30, 1965, when the blaster uncovered an area that was, as Wagner put it, "a solid carpet of gold. The coins were lying two and three deep and some were even stacked in piles." All told, in seven summers of diving, the treasure hunters recovered an estimated $3,000,000 worth of jewelry, pottery, artifacts, navigational gear, silver and gold-some of the gold ingots weighing 9 and 10 lbs. apiece. Nor has the gold lost its luster. Last week collectors were happy to pay up to $9,000 for a single gold...
France gained the monetary strength to choose this freedom greatly at U.S. expense. Cashing in the dollars it earns from its trade surplus, France since 1958 has drained the U.S. of $3.6 billion in gold, amassed a solid $5.5 billion official store of the yellow metal to back its currency. Though private gold holdings have been illegal in the U.S. for a generation, the nation backs its dollar abroad with gold, has lost gold in twelve of the past 16 years...
Though the Times' article did not mention the volunteer army proposal, Patterson said the commission had made a "solid decision" on the issue. He declined to say whether the "solid decision" was in favor of the scheme or against it, but all sources indicated the panel had voted down the volunteer army...
Moynihan sees the Negro as a solid, bourgeois citizen, holding opinions and values antithetical to those of the liberal left. The liberal left apparently sees the Negro as the embodiment of its own ideals. Until the Negro speaks for himself, experts on and leaders of the Negro ("of both races," as President Johnson put it) will continue to compartmentalize, classify, and be wrong...