Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from $20.02 to $24.35. Northrop Aircraft's payrollers in Los Angeles raised their contribution to the local A.I.D. chest from $269,000 last year to $307,000 this fall. So it went in Fort Wayne, Ind., Seattle, Cincinnati, Beaumont, Texas-a total of 162 cities now running 2.3% ahead of last year despite the first-half recession. United Community Campaigns Chairman Carrol M. Shanks confidently predicted that total 1959 giving will easily top the $412 million raised...
Equally significant, between the two leaders the survey showed Rockefeller actually ahead of Nixon among independent voters...
...urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared on to death-and became a legend...
...Ahead, just then, they saw land: High Island, a small square bump in the lake. Slowly, the raft drifted toward it. Fleming turned around: behind, bearing down on them, was a ship. They were spotted. It was the Coast Guard tender Sundew. They cried: "It's coming! It's coming!" It was about 15 hours after the Bradley had gone down when they sank to their knees in thanksgiving for their own survival-and in mourning for the 33 men of the Bradley who had died on Lake Michigan in November's seas...
...Inching ahead with almost leisurely menace, Nikita Khrushchev built up pressure on the Allied position in West Berlin. But his real aim, it became clearer, was to force Western recognition of his servile East German satellite regime...