Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...
...Community Chest-Red Cross campaign. Businessmen and labor leaders faithfully made their fund-raising rounds, while unemployment hovered around 14,000, three times as high as last year. By last week bellwether Rochester's results raised hopes in other cities ready to launch their big fund drives: the number of contributors dropped 4%, but the average gift rose 7% to $26.75, boosted the total over the goal...
There was surprisingly unanimous agreement throughout the hemisphere on one point: the Reds had exploited an already rotten situation. Said Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin: "The Communists must have taken advantage of a feeling among certain groups well beyond the small number of Reds there...
...depth of three inches. Hurrying to claim his $1,000, he arrived at the station in the midst of a swarm of lawsuits from angry property owners. Apparently well content with this harvest of ill will, Don Burden moved ahead with his next gimmick: a "Lucky Phone Number" contest with genuine Shetland ponies as prizes. Crowed Burden: "I'm going to rock this market like it's never been rocked before...
...rate of decline was being braked by increasing signs of resistance in the economy. A rise in April housing starts generated optimism among home builders (see Bellwether Industry?). The number of the jobless collecting benefits dropped 70,900 to 3,194,000, lowest since Feb. 15. Personal income and retail sales are holding up well. The auto industry, black sheep of the economy, is also showing some life; May auto sales started off at the best rate since January, and production last week rose 8,000 to 86,738 units...