Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifteen scientists and two laymen who contributed most to the conquest of polio were named by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
...have been completed this year and are delivering civilian power; the Shippingport plant will be No. 5. One of these plants has been financed entirely by private capital, and seven other full-scale plants likewise are scheduled to be built by private capital without any direct Government financial contribution. Fifteen other atomic power plants, for civilian use, are presently under actual construction, or contracts have been entered into and design work is under way. All this has come about in 4½ years...
Harris, has spent the last six months examining the nation's educational problems. Writing in the United Press story, he predicted a 150 per cent increase in enrollment for public institutions and a 50 per cent increase for private institutions in the next fifteen years. These rises in enrollment, he stated, will increase total expenditures for public education by 200 per cent...
...record has some minor defects, at once more trivial and more bizarre than the essential one. The various songs seem to have been recorded over the last ten or fifteen years; at least, the quality of Seeger's voice changes remarkably from band to band, which is a little unsettling. There is in addition no apparent relation between either the text or the label and the order in which the listed ballads are sung on side...
...After fifteen long hours yesterday, scientists and reporters at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute finally ended their wait for the expected launching of the first United States satellite...