Word: held
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...base for the healthy retail sales record was easy to see: the Commerce Department reported that personal income in November held steady at the annual rate of $409,500,000,000-a record high...
...most Rev. Giuseppe Ferretto. 61, a noted archaeologist and Secretary of the Sacred College of Cardinals, has held an impressive number of Vatican administrative posts, dealing with law, education, emigration, communications, and the church's overseas affairs...
...Arians (4th century) viewed Christ the Son as inferior to God the Father, because created by Him; Appollinarians (4th century) believed that Christ was a union of a perfect divine nature and an incomplete humane nature; the Patripassians (3rd century) held that since the Father and the Son are manifestations of an unknowable God, it logically follows that the Father died on the cross; the Eutychians (sth century) maintained that Christ did not have two separate natures-divine and human-but that the two were so blended as to constitute...
Though department stores were worried about Christmas sales, total retail sales held virtually steady for November at a seasonally adjusted $18.6 billion-down only $100 million from October, which rang up the second highest monthly rate in history. Durable-goods sales declined 2% from October, but the losses were partially offset by gains of food stores, restaurants and clothiers. Moreover, the Commerce Department cheerily predicted a sharp rise for December (see chart...
...road's stock, enough to ensure control. The victory was a personal triumph for the C. & O.'s fast-moving President Walter J. Tuohy, who personally canvassed hundreds of B. & O. stockholders for support, twice flew to Switzerland to argue his case with Swiss bankers whose depositors held 20% of B. & O. stock (they backed him). The Central, which was also soliciting tenders of B. & O. stock, refused to say how many it had received. But the figure was estimated as low as only...