Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon that filled the August sky, the wheat and corn and cotton were ripening, and the U.S. prepared to bring in the biggest crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
...days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...
...summer long, parents of the Pee-Wee League (ages 8-10) in Ottawa, Kans. had fidgeted in the stands as their kids walked up to the plate as if to the block, eyes atremble with tears, to face Harry Murphy ("Murphy the Great") and his submarine ball. Murph awes even his catcher, Lyle Adcock, 10. "We don't have any signals," admits Lyle. "All I do is hope he doesn't throw too hard and that I can catch it." Playing it safe, Lyle wears a pair of boots under his shin guards to absorb the force...
...German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept, it was with the face-saving declaration that the only thing that would convince him he was wrong was a look at the French bomb...
...roads finished so far, highway funds have run so low that contract awards or advertising for bids have been stopped by 24 states from Maine to Washington, including New York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes on autos and parts to the highway program from fiscal 1962 through...