Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought by School Superintendent Thomas Campbell that they are violating the state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...
...market was almost there a month ago, but fell back. At that time it had hit 601.74 on an intraday basis, then retreated to the 590s. The quick push-pull led the experts to talk about the possibility of a sharp selloff ahead, of "technical corrections," "testing lows," etc., etc. After that, it did indeed slip some 30 points. But it resumed its climb, with hardly a thought to the worriers...
...hardly anyone talked about the weather. "With all these Larks around," said Studebaker-Packard's President Harold E. Churchill, "it's been like spring." Production of the Lark was up to 4,300 cars a week; total production for 1959 so far (61,000) was 12,000 ahead of the entire 1958 model year...
...night, over the nation's great steel centers from Sparrow's Point to Fontana, the belching smoke and cherry glow of the furnaces made dramatic testimony to steel's comeback. The order books were filled for months ahead, and the mills were pouring at near-record rates. The figure last week: 86% of the industry's newly expanded capacity, 2,439,000 actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat...
...jump in steel came largely from the pickup in autos. Sales of 128,000 new cars in February's first ten days rode ahead of the year-ago pace, and production last week climbed 36% above a year ago. The continuing production pickup pushed freight carloadings more than 6% above last year's level, the fifth straight weekly rise. Total industrial production in January moved up for the ninth straight month to 143% of the 1947-49 average, just four points below the all time peak of December 1956. Personal income was also up by $2.4 billion...