Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testimony given by the two police ballistics experts concerning Sacco's pistol as follows: "Had Captain Proctor and Van Amburgh constituted the jury with the data then in their possession and with the state of mind disclosed in the record, they must have returned a verdict for the defendants upon this issue...
...case Wadsworth should run into difficulty, Shepard can call upon either Wally Cook or Byron Johnson, two pitchers who have both done very well during the latter part of the season. Cook, indeed, saved the first Yale game with a fine fourinning relief...
Even chemists had to give the drug a less jawbreaking name than N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1 ,3-propanediol dicarbamate, hit upon "carisoprodol." That was still too much for Wallace Labs' savvy marketing department: they are calling it Soma...
Japan's success is based mainly upon low wages and high skills. The typical Japanese transistor worker is a deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...
...corporate taxes on dividends from 30% to 15%, the index of average share prices vaulted from $45.24 on last Dec. 30 to $59.29 last week. In Britain, where the bull started putting on meat after the Conservative government lifted restrictions on consumer credit, the stock index piled record upon record all last week, closed 56% above the low of February...