Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Useless Pig Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough...
...five-hour walk among the city's "few central brick structures" and along the "muddy lanes" beyond, Yiddish-speaking Reporter Frankel "heard no more than four or five Yiddish conversations." He found Yiddish disappearing from the street signs, as it has already from the schools and the movies...
...companies to agree to foot the college bills of deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count on aid from such other sources as colleges and foundations...
...send cough-racked Britons to their beds -or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...
Such improvements are part of a $65 million rehabilitation program. The road, now in the black after years of heavy losses, considers the commuter a valued customer-in contrast to many railroads (e.g., the New Haven and the N.Y. Central) that treat him as an unnecessary evil. The Long Island has repainted 140 of its 160 stations, 75 of them in colors selected by the commuters who use them, has modernized hundreds of its coaches. For the road, which once stirred only wrath from commuters, the program has caused "an impressive improvement in relations between the railroad and its riders...