Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOEING'S $20 million gamble on its dual-purpose Model 707 (TIME July 19) is paying off. The Air Force ordered a "limited number" of the sweptwing, 550-m.p.h., four-engined jets as tankers to refuel jet bombers. Production orders are expected to bring down costs, hasten the day when commercial airlines can buy a 130-passenger version of the 707 for a cross-continent run of 4½ hours...
...hasten French ratification of the European Army, the U.S. promised...
...represents the legal recognition of a very simple fact: segregation is as outmoded as denying the vote to women. The Second World War and the recent Korean conflict only served to hasten what many people considered inevitable. "Separate but equal" has never been more than a written phrase, and the Court has finally ruled that it can no longer be used as the foundation of a second-class citizenship. That yesterday's decision is more than merely an opinion of individuals is shown by the unanimity of a body whose majority in the recent past has been fundamentally conservative...
...might be completely destroyed. To complicate matters, the savings and loan associations, long-time enemies of FHA, seemed anxious to cash in on the public indignation and press for abolition of the service. As competitors of the federal government in the mortgage insurance business, they have every reason to hasten...
Only one change was made in the entire three-page docket. The faculty voted, at the motion of John H. Van Vleck, Dean of Applied Science, to change the last sentence under the heading "Course Reduction" to read: "Course reduction will not normally be used to hasten graduation." The CEP's version did not include the word "normally." This change will allow some men to couple course reduction with summer credit and graduate in three years...