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By the end of the fiscal year 1988, RCA Records had gross revenue of $236 million in the United States, the most profitable year in the label's history. The album The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range , sold more than three million copies, and the soundtrack album from the film Dirty Dancing , which cost RCA $200,000 to produce, sold 15. ...
The war remained a frustrating stalemate for two years, with over 30,000 Americans killed, until an armistice ended the fighting in 1953. [ citation needed ] In February 1952, Truman's approval mark stood at 22 percent according to Gallup polls , which is the all-time lowest approval mark for a sitting U.S. president, though it was matched by ...
Under the advice of Maurice Wilkes (1913–2010), LEO was designed by John Pinkerton (1919–1997) and David Caminer (1915–2008). 1951: Concept of microprogramming developed by Maurice Wilkes (1913–2010) from the realisation that the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer could be controlled by a miniature, highly specialised computer ...
The U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallic standard of 371.25 grains (24.057 g) (0.7734375 troy ounces) fine silver or, from 1834, [2] 23.22 grains (1.505 g) fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy ounce.
Matthew Louis Gaetz II was born on May 7, 1982, in Hollywood, Florida, to Victoria (née Quertermous) and Don Gaetz, who later became a prominent local politician, [11] [12] [13] earning Matthew Gaetz the nickname "Baby Gaetz". [14]
The sale of UK gold reserves, 1999–2002 was a policy pursued by HM Treasury when gold prices were at their lowest in 20 years, following an extended bear market. The period itself has been dubbed by some commentators as the Brown Bottom or Brown's Bottom .