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...alarm; air force planes were scheduled to drop flowers at midday on the plaza's Roman Catholic cathedral in honor of Argentine Liberator José de San Martin, whose tomb is in the church. But instead of dropping flowers, the plane loosed two dark objects that hurtled downward toward President Juan Perón's headquarters, the block-long Casa Rosada (Pink House) standing at the other end of the plaza...
...their present contracts with no pay boost at all. To date, the majority of raises have been from 7? to 10? an hour, 50% higher than 1954's 5? to 7? an hour. Furthermore, in some cases, workers had actually taken a slight pay cut because of a downward cost-of-living adjustment...
...Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
Silent Rejoinder. At this point in his incredible performance, Khrushchev glanced at Tito to see how he was reacting. Tito stood with his hand thrust into his blouse in a Napoleonic pose, the corners of his mouth turned slightly downward, his eyes nearly closed...
...operate profitably and maintain their productive efficiency in the face of a 20% cut or even more. Currently, the aircraft industry's sales are dropping from 1954's $8 billion to a maintenance level of between $6 billion and $7 billion a year. That is a downward adjustment of about 20% and no one is crying havoc. In Los Angeles, where almost 25% of the work force is in aircraft production, the Southern California Research Council estimated two years ago that if defense orders were cut back 25% in 1955, unemployment in the area would rise...