Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight easing had no effect on interest rates. The U.S. Treasury last week sold its 13-week bills at 4.5%, the highest point in history for its shortest-term borrowing, partly because only the week before it had drawn heavily on short-term funds with a $2 billion offer of 320-day bills at 4.86%. Bankers expect even greater pressure when a steel settlement is made and a rush for supplies and postponed expansion exerts new pressure on the money market...
...decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since...
Tomorrow morning Menzel will see the real thing, weather permitting, when he takes his Freshman Seminar students and Observatory officials in a DC-6 to view a natural eclipse, the first in the Boston area for 300 years. It requires the shortest expedition ever for Harvard astronomers to study a solar eclipse...
...political enemies, through pork-barrelling campaign provender, to a whimsical item that would have barred airlines from grounding stewardesses when they got married. The legislature at Baton Rouge last week just as abruptly answered the Governor's call: it adjourned 20 minutes after it had convened-the shortest session in Louisiana history, and quite possibly a world's record...
Automakers, too, are anxious to keep up the July pace and are expected to complete the changeover to 1960 model production in three to four weeks, one of the shortest periods on record. With the finish of 1959 car production scheduled for the end of this month. 1960 models will roll out in volume by mid-September, a full month ahead...