Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-statehooders still found time for apprehension about the problems ahead, e.g., new, higher taxes to pay for state services. Scoffed Anchorage's bewhiskered antistatehood leader, John Manders: "Did you ever see anybody stop a crowd on its way to a hanging? Wait till the honeymoon is over and the taxes arrive...
...bounce-back stemmed from a combination of good luck and government help. Last year, when the economy was still riding high, hundreds of school boards and town councils voted to go ahead with building plans; work on schools, roads, city halls, sewers and hospitals got going in time to cushion the worst of the recession. The Tory federal government of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker also pitched in with spending so heavy that the new budget of $5.3 billion shows a deficit of $640 million...
...California's Mickey Wright, 23, admit to herself that she had a chance to win. Then she flubbed her approach shot and had to settle for a par. But she was still right where she had been all through the tournament-far in front. She finished five strokes ahead of Georgia's Louise Suggs, became the first woman ever to win the pro and open titles in the same season...
...pickup is still too new to be apparent to all toolmakers. For the first five months of this year, Detroit's Cross Co. (automated assembly equipment) was 3% to 5% ahead of 1957, and the pace continued during June. Cleveland's National Acme Co. (automatic machine and threading tools) said that June orders were 50% over...
Production of Boeing's 707 jet transport is racing eight months ahead of schedule, and certification is going along so smoothly that the first planes will start hauling passengers barely four months from now. By the end of the year, American Airlines President C. R. Smith and Pan American Boss Juan T. Trippe plan to have eleven jets in the air. The trouble is that the U.S. airways are not-and will not be-ready to mix the 550-m.p.h. jets with 350-m.p.h. piston planes in real safety...