Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment in Canada has indeed grown fast-from $5 billion to an estimated $7.2 billion since 1945-but the overall Canadian economy has grown faster. While Americans took the risk of financing such spectacular enterprises as the Alberta oil boom, Canadians were investing at an even faster clip in bonds, plant expansions, and other less dramatic developments of. the national economy. Result: the proportion of U.S. ownership is shrinking, not growing. The Canadian economy is freer of foreign control now than at any time in the country's history...
...Mont network, which presents the show but gets no money for it, gave Sheen what the trade calls an "obituary spot," i.e., conflicting with two very popular shows on other networks, Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra (Tues. 8 p.m., E.S.T.). Against this formidable competition, Sheen has made a spectacular...
...name of Robert A. Taft was entered in the New Jersey presidential primary on March 6, when the Taft campaign seemed to be rolling with gathering force toward the Republican nomination. That was before Ike Eisenhower walloped Taft in New Hampshire, and before the spectacular call for Ike in Minnesota. Last week, as the lens began to focus on New Jersey, Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll publicly announced what political observers had long known: he favors Eisenhower...
When he introduced legume crops to improve the soil, some religious villagers opposed the plowing-in of the live green growth. Tactfully Holmes broke down prejudices, stilled native hostility. The results were spectacular: in Etawah's 102 villages (pop. 79,000), food production jumped nearly 50% in three years. Malaria was eliminated; herds were freed from rinderpest...
Running tandem with the Bogart-Hepburn travelling tryst is some of the most spectacular scenery Africa possesses. Waterfalls, steaming jungles, and endless papyrus marshes are caught with such remarkable realism that when Bogie and Katic are attacked by a swarm of insects, everybody in the theatre started scratching. The jungle is definitely one of the actors in The African Queen, and thanks to the Technicolor camera and its own loathsome inhabitants, it does a very fine...