Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History Teaches ... In fact, Khrushchev seemed clearly less irked by Poland's determination to remain this side of the Communist agricultural paradise than by Red China's earlier insistence that it would reach Marxism's pearly gates ahead of Russia itself. In his bluntest assault yet on Mao Tse-tung's rural communes, Khrushchev recalled that soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, some Soviet leaders had also decided that the way to achieve true Communism was by herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions...
Room for All. A full week ahead of the big day, the guajiros began arriving-the first few by plane, then big shipments by train. Navy ships, buses and private cars brought in the hordes. One column of 1,500 rode into town on horseback. FARMERS, THIS IS YOUR HOME, read the signs on public buildings...
...fourth quarter of 1959, the U.S. economy will pass a long-awaited milestone far ahead of schedule. Americans by then will be producing, earning, spending and investing at the rate of $500 billion yearly, raising the U.S. to the level of a half-trillion-dollar economy. For each of the nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany...
...made money through 1958, is outdoing itself in 1959. From President George Romney came a beaming report of April-June earnings of $2.70 a share, more than double last year's performance. American's nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year...
...intense young men with briefcases and suspiciously bulging pockets. Who were the young men? They were agents for U.S. cigarette companies, anxiously collecting their competitors' new smokes to rush them back to the laboratory for analysis. Undeterred by the cancer reports-cigarette sales are running 5% ahead of 1958-U.S. cigarette companies have taken off on a scramble to grab a bigger share of the $4¼ billion-a-year cigarette market. Each hopes to turn the trick by outdoing its competitors with new cigarettes that offer the U.S. smoker everything from rum flavor to air-conditioned paper...