Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual cities. The only thing we show in the Uniform Crime Reports bulletins, for the cities that you listed, is the total number of offenses of each individual classification reported by the police agency represented. We do not convert those figures into terms of the number of offenses per unit of population for individual cities...
...Come indoors," said plump, good-hearted Yvette Bleuse on that November evening in 1944. "You can sleep here. There's no sense in spending your money on a hotel." Wayne Powers, an awkward, bashful G.I. who was AWOL from his Quartermaster unit, gratefully accepted her offer-and stayed for 14 years...
...forced Publisher David Stern III to sell the afternoon New Orleans Item (circ. 101,604) to the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., which owns both the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 189,758) and the afternoon States (circ. 101,916). Contributing to the 81-year-old Item's failure: the "unit" ad rate of the Times-Picayune and States, which forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither. The Times-Picayune announced that, just to keep competition alive, it would resell the Item to any bidder willing to match the $3,400,000 price within...
...Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
Kilty is handsomely assisted by William Roberts' monumental two-story unit set, representing a corner of Venice, complete with tessellated pavement and an animal-head fountain spouting water. The wall beneath inverted-V stairways folds out to transplant us to Portia's greenery-bedecked residence at Belmont. Gilbert Helmsley, Jr. has designed some fine lighting...