Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel's Troubles. We drove up the main road from Hungnam to Hamhung, a distance of about eight miles. U.N. forces had officially evacuated the city that morning, amid some of the most spectacular demolitions of the retreat, but more were still to come...
...outbreak of the Korean war, the rail averages hit 76.01, up 2.63 in two days, and their highest point in nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...
Miller mentioned recent spectacular dollar earnings by Latin American countries selling strategic goods to the U.S., and warned that this flow of dollars, continued in the future, would bring a new danger of inflation, since the U.S. on a war-production footing must cut down or eliminate many exports. Nevertheless, Miller said, the U.S. can guarantee that Latin America will get its share of scarce U.S. goods in return for full cooperation. "But we must face up to the fact," he said, "that shortages and controls are inevitable...
Cardinals & Crackups. The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...thing, it became apparent that in Yardling Captain Bill Dennis the Crimson has a hard-fighting, spectacular ball-handler who is one of the most promising basketball players to appear here in a long time...