Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropping to 578,98 (see chart below). Though it was still some 40 points above the low it hit last June, the market had dropped nearly half of the 80 points that it recouped in August, effectively erasing any lingering hopes that the summer rally might still have some steam...
Because the PHS was so inconclusive, several U.S. cities canceled or postponed their Type III programs, while others, notably Houston, decided to go full steam ahead. Though no medical authority would put it in such down-to-earth terms, the best advice available was to play the odds. An unvaccinated adult stands only one chance in 2,000,000 of getting Type III polio. If all eleven paralytic cases now under suspicion were traced to the vaccine, the takers' risk would be about one 500,000-and the risk of vaccination would not be justified. Among preschool and school...
...Depression. Now that no such calamity has occurred, the public is coming around to accept what the savvy economists were saying all along: the recovery is not so bouncy as it should be and will likely start to "top out" sooner than originally hoped. But it still has some steam...
Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan...
Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...