Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the gang reached Victoria, they apparently had decided not to press their leapfrog luck too far. Leaving a fortune behind, they took only $28,000 worth of jewelry, and for the fourth and last time locked their doors behind them. Their record take: goods worth $700,000, chosen so judiciously for size and value that the whole caboodle would fit in a suitcase...
...takeover in China, Premier Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year before]." Last week, quick to take a hint, Peking's trained-seal statisticians announced in advance the overfulfillment of 1959 targets...
...Replied to persistent reports that the U.S. Congress, angry over Castro's treatment of U.S. capital, will cut Cuba's sugar quota while raising Mexico's. Said he: "If measures are taken against us, we will take the countermeasures required. What measures? Many...
...difference is made up by unhealthy short-term "hot money," largely used to finance imports, and responsible for keeping the Canadian dollar at a high $1.05½ in U.S. currency). Both Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, hopeful of more sales to Europe, urge Canada to take the lead in the promotion of a free-trade area among NATO nations...
...long-settled Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 82, born in an Arizona hamlet once known as Hay den's Ferry (so dubbed after his father and now called Tempe), gave the youngsters in their '50s and his contemporaries some earthy advice: "Believe me, I don't take my work to bed with me. I always figured you couldn't solve any problems between the sheets...