Word: totaling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure finally cracked Los Angeles' tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 134 Ibs.) Jerry Barber, 43, who bogeyed both, lost the Professional Golfers' Association title by a single stroke to Palo Alto's burly Bob Rosburg, 32, who finished with a blazing 66 for a total of 277 at the Minneapolis Golf Club...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with the consumer. The companies reported total net income up 140% over the first half of recession 1958, while average earnings per share of the eleven rose...
...biggest gainers was building. The Commerce Department estimated that new construction in July reached $5.2 billion, up 3% from June and 14% from July a year ago. Total work put in place in the first seven months of 1959 was $30.1 billion, 15% ahead of the same period last year. Outlays for new private building in July rose to $3.6 billion to push the seven-month total 16% ahead of a year ago. Biggest gains were in home building, which leveled in July at a seven-month rate 32% above last year. So great is the demand for funds...
Machine-tool orders, prime indicator of industrial activity, rose 38% above May to hit a new two-year high in June, one of the most significant gains since the orders started to turn up last fall. The June total of $67.3 million was more than double last June's, pushed six-month orders to $307.2 million v. last year's $179.8 million...