Word: start
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sample is too small to represent the real situation in unemployment and is subject to error. Samplers themselves concede that the range of their potential error is about 120,000 people. One trouble is that when the husband is laid off, the wife and often a son or daughter start searching for work to help out. Result: where only one has actually lost his job, three are registered as unemployed. Nonetheless, the statistics do show the national trend-and the trend is not encouraging...
Broadway plays often start wrapping fads. The King and I roused interest in wrappings with an Oriental motif. My Fair Lady brought Victorian wrappings out of designers' files. The company hopes to pick up something from Camelot...
...joke to its author, James Bryan Choate, 35, a lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To Rondonia it signalled the start of local industry, a supply of jobs as well as caninha. The territorial government willingly blessed the venture with a five-year tax grace...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...
Rephrasing the topic from "can communism exist independent of Russia" to "can communism and Russia exist independent of Peking," Mr. Browder still emphasized that China will not become a greater power than Russia within the next 100 years, although it may start a world war. Furthermore, China is opposed by another communist nation which "has achieved real independence," Yugoslavia...