Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a slip in retail sales, which dropped 3% from last year's levels in the first four months, there were plenty of signs around the U.S. last week that the economy was still climbing out of the recession valley. Items: ¶ Industrial production in May climbed two points to 125% of the 1947-49 average for the nation's mines and factories, the first increase in ten months. Steel production edged up to 73% of capacity...
...private company take over power development on Alabama's Coosa River, once ticketed for a public-power project. In the second, President Eisenhower directed the Atomic Energy Commission to buy its additional power in the South from private sources, and ruled against expansion of the Tennessee Valley Authority to meet AEC's added power demands...
...almost insignificant in the vast sweep of world affairs. It had, for instance, brought 57 young students from 18 nations to study together in Sweden. It organized a blood-bank program in war-torn Korea. It sent a young Pakistani to make friends in Washington's Yakima Valley. It is sponsoring an international network of radio hams. Its magazines had kept Rotarians in Kenya, Viet Nam and Trieste posted on the activities of their fellows in Ceylon, Wichita and Sioux City...
...16th at Oakland Hills, Mich.* No. 11, the 13th at Pine Valley, N.J.* No. 12, the 16th at Cypress Point Golf Club, Pebble Beach, Calif.* No. 13 is also the 13th at The Dunes, Myrtle Beach, S.C., 540 yds., Par 5 No. 14, the 18th at Pinehurst...
...Fire-Raisers, by Marris Murray. A vivid, moody story about a South African valley and its willy-nilly incendiaries (TIME, April...