Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bright: ¶ New construction in May rose 10% over April to $4.5 billion, but was still 5% lower than May last year. Construction spending for the year so far: $19.6 billion, 2% below the first five months of 1959. ¶ Freight carloadings declined for the third week in a row, largely because of the cutback in steel production. ¶ Machine-tool orders dropped sharply, continuing a downward trend...
Back in New York, assessing TIME correspondents' files plus a wealth of other background material from all over the world, Bob Christopher wrapped up what he hoped was his last cover-writing task at least for a few weeks. But three in a row would be a record, and who could tell what would happen next week...
...lakeside ranch 20 miles southwest of Havana, the croak of 500,000 bullfrogs filled the air last week, and the reek of tanning frogskins drifted up from a row of concrete tanks. Ohio-born Major William Morgan, 32, kept 120 workers hopping by barking over short-wave radio such orders as: "Slaughter 10,000 more bulls!" Morgan, the highest ranking of the Americans who served with Fidel Castro in Castro's rebellion, is carving out a new career supplying U.S. restaurants with frogs' legs...
...first inning, the 6-ft. 4-in., 210-Ib. righthander walked the St, Louis Cardinals' Alex Grammas with one out. After that, Chicago Cub Pitcher Don Cardwell, 24, acquired by trade just two days before from the Philadelphia Phillies, retired the next 26 men in a row for a 4-0 victory and the first no-hitter of the 1960 major league season...
...stock market, which has been viewing the world through dark glasses, last week finally reacted with spirit to the favorable news in the U.S. economy. It not only bounded ahead for three days in a row, but made its sharpest one-day advance in eleven weeks. What was equally cheering to investors was the fact that volume increased as the market rose. Trading of 3,752,980 shares in one day was the biggest since March 4. The Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 616.03, up 8.41 points for the week and well above the recent lows...