Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollar growth in gross national product sets new peaks each quarter, inflation now accounts for more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues to set new records each month, is also offset by higher price levels. The. experts believe that people may develop a resistance to industry's high-priced products, which in turn takes more oomph out of the boom...
...operation has been successful," declared British Brigadier J.A.R. Robertson. "We have reinstated the Sultan's forces. Political control is developing." To make sure that the right kind of "political control'' continues to develop. Britain will maintain an airstrip at Firq, but will withdraw most of its regular troops...
...companion and these characters are friends to millions of lonely people," she says in a soft, nasal voice. "It is not supposed to be a pretentious art form. It is not Aristotelian with beginnings, middles and endings, but a series of situations and characters that must extend and develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne insists that cliffhanging is not "the appeal of our story." "Our characters are lovable, often funny human beings-family friends...
HUGE FARM AREA will be created along Colorado River in southwestern Arizona, where Real Estateman Stanley W. Barton made deal with Interior Department to transform 67,000 parched acres of Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...
...improved tape. He invested $250,000 realized from the sale of Opelika's radio station WJHO and other holdings, sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone into the manufacture of tape recorders after one of its engineers had brought two of the Magnetophons back from Germany...