Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting in Washington that it was time for prospering REA to give up its subsidy of low-rate Government loans (TIME, Feb. 23). In his veto message he explained that REA had all but fulfilled its mission-96% of the nation's farms have been electrified, more than half of them through REA loans-and noted that there was no sensible reason for changing a successful administrative system. "The REA," said Ike, "has been working well and progressing efficiently under the existing administrative arrangements. The change in those arrangements proposed by S. 144 would be contrary to the public...
...discharged 75,000 untrainables, as a byproduct cut stockade (prison) population from 6,300 to 1,500. slashed its overall courts-martial rate 22%. Its multimillion-dollar education program in 1957-58 qualified 40,000 enlisted men for high-school diplomas, by 1962 will put 1,200 in colleges. Half of the Army officers who do not have college degrees have signed up for courses. RANGERS FOR TOUGHNESS...
...Seventh has adopted the "shield and spear" principle. Its five-division conventional weaponry would be a shield to stop the first assault, force the Russians to concentrate in attack forces big enough to be devastated by the Seventh's nuclear "spear." The spear is made up of half a dozen Corporal ballistic-missile battalions (100-mile range), Honest Johns, Redstones, 280-mm. cannon, 8-in. howitzers-together capable of delivering at least 100 atomic warheads simultaneously...
Faded Star. Its Jewishness has been systematically squelched. There has been no significant influx of the Soviet Union's 2,500,000 Jews since World War II. The total population of an area twice the size of New Jersey is barely 160,000, "half Jewish, two-thirds urban." Young Jews leave to seek better opportunities elsewhere; Frankel met one in the train who spoke with "contempt" of the city of Birobidzhan (pop. 60,000) as "a city of three streets...
...shows up at the shack that serves as a synagogue. Friday nights and Saturdays, on the Jewish Sabbath, Cantor Kaplan (there is no rabbi) leads prayers for 30 persons, more women than men. Last Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, 400 worshipers walked to the little house, about half a mile from the paved city center...