Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short: Britain will stay on Cyprus at least until 1965. "Time will prove us right," said Prime Minister Macmillan...
...Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through the dusk on the Thames River in New London, Conn, to trounce Harvard by three lengths in the nation's longest (four miles) and oldest (107 years) boat race, and to prove again that it is the finest...
...authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut Wood, the n 2-year-old Gothic Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Conn. (TIME, Oct. 21), designed by igth century Architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It became a hot political issue in last year's mayoralty race, apparently won a stay of execution when Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tedesco won on a save-the-mansion ticket, was doomed again by Winner Tedesco when backers failed to raise the $75,000-$100,000 required for its preservation. Status: in doubt, with demolition temporarily staved off by a Superior Court injunction. ¶ Pittsburgh...
...showed signs of picking up speed. Freight carloadings jumped 7% in a fortnight, hit a 1958 high of 612,715 cars. The rise was in all types of freight, with the most significant gain in wheat shipments. Railroadmen expect that wheat shipments will reach a peak around July 4, stay high as the U.S. harvests its fourth fattest crop in history...
...average maturity of the federal debt from 58 months to 63 months. Holders of maturing securities gave the Treasury a pleasant surprise, swapped all but 3.7% of their holdings for two new Treasury issues. The Treasury had to pay out only $356 million in cash. It hopes now to stay out of the market until July, when it will refinance $11.5 billion that comes...