Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fall the football team plays Princeton in New Jersey, Cornell in Ithaca, and Columbia and Yale in Cambridge. Colgate was moved off the schedule in the gradual shift back to an Ivy slate...
...device that sped the growth of defense industries during the war and postwar period. Eisenhower now proposes this change for all industry. A day later, the plan was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. The change would double depreciation rates allowed during the first year, with a gradual decline in depreciation allowance thereafter. For example, a $10,000 machine expected to last ten years can be depreciated at $1,000 a year under present law ("straight line" method); under the new method, the same machine could be depreciated $2,000 (or 20%) the first year...
...days later. President Eisenhower announced in Augusta that the U.S. will soon bring home two divisions (some 32,000 men plus support troops) of its six Army divisions from Korea as a first step in the gradual reduction of its ground forces there. The withdrawal, said Eisenhower, was further proof "that we ourselves have no aggressive intentions, and that we are resourceful and vigilant to find ways to reduce the burden of armament and to promote a climate of peace...
...makers of autos, appliances, refrigerators, etc., began to trim their output, which in most cases had already exceeded their fondest hopes for the full year. Those who had feared that any step down from boom heights would mean a disastrous fall were proved wrong; the steps were orderly and gradual. Although prices officially showed little change, the shrewd buyer of autos and other hard goods could almost quote his own price, sometimes down as much as 30%. At year's end, layoffs were higher than in three years...
...first time in this picture, are enough to shake the heart of any man, and the further sight and sound of a fellow human being, gasping on them like an expiring fly, is an experience more severe than even, a horror-hardened moviegoer may care to undergo without a gradual preparation. Only by slow and patient teaching that the danger and the suffering must be understood and absorbed as necessary to a goal felt to be spiritual can the film lift up the heart of the onlooker to share in the triumph of the climax...