Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an injured calf muscle on top of a previous leg ailment, Fitzgerald has been ordered not to compete this afternoon. His loss is a blow which only an all-out team effort can overcome...
...Hello-have you sold your farm yet?" In Kenya last week, this was the standard greeting whenever white settlers met. Behind it lay the bitterest blow that Kenya's settlers have yet suffered: a Kenya government proposal to open up to Africans and Asians the immensely fertile 12,700 sq. mi. of the British colony's "White Highlands...
...nation's harried railroads, who hoped for a boost in booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...
...Corvair, the new car marks the fulfillment of a 15-year dream; for that long, off and on, he has been trying to produce a rear-engine car. Says Ed Cole jubilantly: "If I felt any better about our Chevy Corvair, I think I'd blow...
Gracie struck a mighty blow at this old port city and along the coastline from Savannah, Ga., to Myrtle Beach...