Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's prophecy that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism" is not ridiculous. He is observing the fast-moving events on the American political scene. The Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower team, aided and abetted by an increasingly pinkish Supreme Court, has catapulted America well down the road to Socialism...
...fast-growing National Citizens' Committee to Curb Inflation, born in Mexico, Mo. (pop. 13,500) three months ago, marched into Washington for a rally last week, and it could hardly have picked a fitter time. Reason: last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its retail price index had crept upward for the ninth month in a row, hitting a record peak of 119.6 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 115.4 a Year...
WESTERN EMBARGO on Communist trade is easing fast. From list of exports that need separate licenses before they can be sent to U.S.S.R. and satellites, U.S. removed 200 commodities, including non-strategic manufacturing machines. Italy, West Germany lifted restrictions on exports to Red China of many strategic items, e.g., ships, generators, steel tubing, scientific instruments...
...This," said Mayor Frank Nelson of Panama City (pop. 26,000), Fla., "will be a city of destiny." Mayor Nelson's grandiloquence was inspired by a civic project that is fast becoming as necessary as neon lights for any ocean, lake or riverside U.S. town with vacation-spot ambitions: a first-class marina to serve as a combination club, garage and general store for the nation's ever-increasing yachtsmen. Last week Panama City was about to start work on not one but two big marinas with dock space for 570 boats along its Gulf Coast waterfront...
...boom has grown so fast that many boatmen see a leveling-off period while marinas catch up to the demand. But once the marinas are built, there is no limit to the yachtsman's joy-or the boatbuilders' business...