Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belle McClellan, a lovely woman with a fine singing voice, died three weeks after John's birth. On her deathbed she made only one request: she asked that Congressman Little's $5 be used to buy her newborn baby a Bible. So John was left to grow up with the Bible and his father Ike-who still thinks sadly of John's earliest days and calls him "that poor little fellow...
...Soviet ideology: 1) that even in a Communist state the class struggle must continue until the day when a completely Socialist society is established (Stalin, justifying his bloody purges in the '30s, said that the struggle must in fact get increasingly violent, as enemies of the people grow more desperate); 2) that there can be no real conflict in a Communist state between the people and their rulers, since the party automatically embodies the will of the masses. "The old class warfare amongst the Chinese people is fundamentally ended," declared Peking's People's Daily, reporting...
...shot 600 miles above the earth. With two more stages, say Thiokol engineers, the X-17 might even reach the moon. The company's business is already headed that way. From sales of $13 million in 1955, it grew to more than $21 million in 1956, will probably grow at least another $8 million this year...
...furnish their membership with an important part of their individual educational experiences at Harvard, even to the frequent point of exceeding academics in their claim on time and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, they are making valuable contributions toward the richness and diversity of the entire student body. Yet as these groups grow in their own traditions, the University will be increasingly challenged as the real focus of student loyalties...
...situation will grow even worse in 1958 and 1959. Every major carrier has placed orders for swift new jet transports whose initial cost is three times more than current piston-engine planes. Estimates are that over the long run the planes will be able to earn twice as much money as their older counterparts. Yet rising costs are eating away the profits the lines had hoped to set aside to buy them. American Airlines, for example, has $250 million worth of new jets and turboprops on order. It has a $135 million loan to pay for part of the cost...