Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OWNERS OF STOCK now total 12,490,000, or 45% more than in 1956, reported the New York Stock Exchange. One of every eight U.S. adults owns stock. Women own 52.5% of all shares...
...spectacular improvement in U.S. employment brought jaw-cracking grins from the economists at the U.S. Department of Labor. For the month of May, unemployment dropped 238,000 to a total of 3,389,000 throughout the U.S. The improvement cut the overall percentage of jobless to 4.9% of the labor force for the first time since the early stages of the recession. Just as impressive, employment jumped 1,000,000 to 66 million, new alltime high for the month...
...basement of the Soviet embassy in Washington this week, sweating Russians worked furiously to bring some capitalist efficiency to their task: processing a flood of U.S. tourist visas for the Soviet Union. The Russians had expected some 10,000 U.S. visitors in 1959, but now the total seems headed for 15,000. Not only is Russia "the place to go" for thousands of seasoned tourists, but this summer's U.S. exhibition in Moscow is proving a strong drawing card. So great is the influx that American Express alone had a backlog of 200 visa applications last week. The once...
Sterling's Chicago plant is designed to handle 200 tons of waste solids daily, nearly 25% of the city's total; it does away with the usual complex of chemical-treatment plants, settling basins and incinerators. Instead, it operates like a nameless power plant: oxidizing agents cause fireless combustion of organic waste right in the sewage water. The combustion not only purifies the water, but also produces steam to operate the plant with enough left over, in some cases, to sell as commercial power. The only residue is an inoffensive and inert ash heavy enough...
...genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task! It was obvious that they had overestimated his genius in expecting him to make up by painting alone for the Sistine's total lack of architecture...