Word: currently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalists off from the U.S. But whatever Red China's reasons for cease-fire's extension, the first fact about Quemoy was that Red China, after 44 days of shelling, had failed to subdue a little island only seven miles from its shore and was thus the current candidate for paper tiger. Said President Eisenhower on cease-fire's extension: "Good news...
...capacity, estimated third-quarter earnings at just over $1 a share for the best quarter in the last five. Said Veeder: "By the end of 1959, we expect to be up to the rated capacity of 1,584,000 tons yearly predicted for the end of our current expansion program...
...state insurance would not be excessively expensive. To cover about the same scope as the Social Security System one would probably require an additional payroll tax of about four per cent. Split between employer and employee this is a moderate premium. Present private or factory medical policies, just like current private retirement policies, could continue to exist collaterally...
...Theory of Price Controls, Economics and the Art of Controversy, American Capitalism, and The Great Crash 1929--reveal a broad interest in current social and economic issues and a highly imaginative approach. The Affluent Society, his latest, has been an amazing success since its publication in May. He finished this book last September and embodied the data in his Soc Sci 134 lectures. This year Galbraith is interested in the theory of organization, is exploring the subject in his Soc Sci lectures, and may eventually come up with another book, but "a technical book, definitely not a best-seller...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...