Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXECUTIVE FAT is melting off. An insurance-industry study of 10,000 businessmen in the 35-65 age bracket shows that 25% fewer are significantly overweight than the same number tested...
...have him with me. Some people don't want to go into their private lives, but I think we on TV belong to the public." Groucho Marx offers a more practical reason for having daughter Melinda, 11, as a guest: "She's not in my tax bracket. We can keep what she makes...
...index leaves a lot to be desired. In the first place, the index is not supposed to be a true measure of the cost of living. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics points out, it is only a measure of what families in the under-$10,000-a-year bracket, living chiefly in cities, pay for the "market basket" of 300 goods and services that such representative families presumably buy. The index shows the price increase since 1947-49, the base year, but no economist regards it as reliable except for the short...
...million doses-more than 200 tons-of this vaccine have been released. Of 67 million persons in the top priority bracket (those under 20 and pregnant women). 25 million have had the recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within...
...economy-sized (100-in. wheelbase) Rambler that was dropped in 1955. American will also face lift its regular 108-in. Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier lines than last year's standard Rambler, and a bigger, 270-h.p. V-8 engine. List prices...