Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, April 7--The Macmillan government slashed almost a tenth off income taxes today, bringing the rate to the lowest since prewar days...
During the G.N.P.'s upswing, the U.S. cost of living held just about steady, meaning that the added output was solid growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a point to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). That was two-tenths of a point below last November's record high, and only four-tenths of a point above the March 1958 level...
College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The usual student panel recesses for a tenth-anniversary Salute to NATO, by the foreign ministers of Britain, France, West Germany and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter...
Faced with what may prove to be its most dangerous challenge, NATO marked its tenth anniversary Saturday. Although the Alliance has yet to realize the specific goals of military strength it set for itself, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has proved a valuable mechanism for collective defense. Created in the aftermath of the Czechoslovakian coup of 1948 and the Berlin Blockade, the Treaty signalled Western determination to resist further Soviet expansion in Europe. It also marked the first peace-time alliance to which the United States had ever committed itself; the collapse of Europe brought this country to a mature...
American ski jumpers seldom finish better than 20th in big international meets, but last week a young 18-year-old from Duluth, Minn, placed tenth against the world's best at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. He would have done still better had he not faltered on one landing. As it was, Eugene Robert Kotlarek actually outjumped the winner, and established himself in a sport traditionally dominated by Europeans...