Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
Except for this affirmation that the Soviet Union would go on spending for arms (at least a quarter of its total income this year), the order of the day was peace and friendship. Giant, red corn stalks and eight-foot ears of corn festooned one square, and the moon was gaily displayed as the latest Soviet plaything. Holiday marketers crowded the shops. Restaurants were jammed. And at the Kremlin reception, there was dancing for the first Nov. 7 since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged...
...announced it would boycott the December vote rather than submit to the "slowness" of Brussels' timetable. Hoping to gain control of the rival Congolese National Movement, an ambitious politician named Patrice Lumumba increased the ante. Fiery Lumumba, a 33-year-old former postal clerk and convicted embezzler, cried, "Total independence NOW NOW NOW," at a Stanleyville meeting of his followers, many of them armed with spears and painted as if for battle. Police rushed in to arrest Lumumba, and his supporters fought back, touching off two days of rioting in which more than 70 Africans were killed, hundreds more...
Greene told Managing Editor Alan Hathway of the offer, was instructed to play along-under the surveillance of Nassau County police detectives. Greene reported that he collected a total of $230 from Harris on two occasions. After the second payment, Harris, who denied all, was arrested, released on $500 bond. Maximum penalty for violating a little-known law: $500 and a year's jail term...
...Government has long shied from making any calculations as to the productivity of labor lest it get tangled in the argument between labor and management as to whether the gain was due to harder work or more capital and machines. C.E.D., venturing in, divided the real G.N.P. by the total production force, computed a 1929-57 productivity trend line showing an average 1.6% rise. The difference between a 1.3% labor-force rise and a 1.6% productivity rise, said C.E.D., produced "well over half of the growth in production in recent decades." In 1959 output per man is 60% greater than...