Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone rang and Martin dived...
THEN, strangely, the big fat black cell rang...
...least five peers asleep on their scarlet benches and a couple of others halfheartedly straining to hear the proceedings with old-fashioned black ear trumpets. But when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner was the man who said that Magna Carta was junk." The Lord Chancellor was appropriately chastened. Rising from his comfortable woolsack, he said: "I withdraw the word junk." There...
...very largest companies are taking over a steadily growing share of U.S. business. FORTUNE'S annual listing of the top 500, published last week, shows that the biggest industrial companies rang up almost 64% of all industrial sales in the U.S. last year, up from 62% in 1967 and just over 55% a decade ago. In their fields the 500 employed 687 out of every 1,000 workers and accounted for 74% of total profits. Despite the tax surcharge, profits were up 13%, to $24 billion...
Salute Fired. Champagne and whisky flowed at Promontory, and the nation joined in the celebration. Fire bells pealed in San Francisco, a 100-gun salute was fired in New York, and in Philadelphia the Liberty Bell rang loudly. Today the great age of steel and steam is long past. The Promontory line, which followed the edge of the Great Salt Lake, was replaced in 1903 by a causeway that cut directly across it. The historic trackage was hauled off and melted down to help meet World War II metal shortages. Even the causeway line is now used by only...