Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young couple hurry along the deserted waterfront alley. Then, with a quick backward glance, they disappear through an old wooden door innocently labeled International Exports, Ltd. Inside sits the late-working receptionist known as Annabelle Luck. "We need a safe house," whispers the man. "Are you sure you haven't been followed?" Annabelle whispers back. "Stand over by the bookcase...
...that they could quickly turn their war production lines around to serve the clamoring consumer demand, and to meet the expected rise in Government orders for domestic programs. Though the war has increased sales, the gains have been outweighed by the strains -and businessmen would like to see them disappear...
...Negroes are to continue their fine recent rate of progress in professional and technical jobs. Some of the present progress is based on the elimination of Negro underemployment, of upgrading educated Negroes into the kinds of jobs for which they were educated. This source of progress will gradually disappear. Therefore, to maintain the present rate of progress with professional and technical jobs, the proportion of Negro college graduates must rise even more rapidly in the future than in the recent past...
...increasingly bothersome to handle; and in today's affluent society the horse players are betting $5 more often than $2. Last year the U.S. Treasury stopped printing $2 bills, started gathering in the $115.5 million worth outstanding, and last week announced that the two will be allowed to disappear. Jefferson has one small comfort; he still has a nickel to his name...
...modernizing farming, which will benefit Italy the most. These and other agreements virtually complete the creation of what the French call Europe verte (a green Europe), which will formally sprout on July 1, 1968, the date when the last industrial tariffs among the Six are also scheduled to disappear...