Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston regained third place in the National Hockey League, one point ahead of the New York Rangers...
Twice Booth led Yale drives for touchdowns, and twice he came through with perfect dropkicks, the second one putting the Elis ahead for the first time that afternoon. Then, with the partisan Yale Bowl crowd in an uproar, Booth took an Army punt on his own 20 and twisted 80 yards through the entire Cadet team for the score that clinched the game...
...because of pleurisy contracted in the 3-0 triumph. But he had one more great effort in him; he licked the disease in time for the Harvard-Yale spring baseball series. In a story-book drama, Booth came to bat with the bases loaded, two out, and the Crimson ahead, 2 to 0. After the count reached three and two, Booth smashed a mighty grand-slam home run that decided the contest...
Major Change. The committee had pressed AEC to take a bigger part in developing second-generation prototype plants for atomic power, on the theory that private firms have neither the money nor the know-how to go ahead fast enough. AEC's new plan still leaves the job largely to private industry, but there is one major concession. AEC, which now contributes only toward research and fuel costs of privately built plants, would offer private industry up to 50% of the cost of building prototype reactors, plus more money for research...
Last March, when Congress put through emergency help for building, housing starts were down to a rate of 918,000 annually. But now housing is steaming ahead at the rate of 1,350,000 starts annually with forecasts of a record $52.3 billion (up from $49 billion) in total construction for the year without any increase in Government spending...