Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...
Three months ago the first measure of democracy was doled out to the native African tribesmen of Britain's Kenya, but from the Africans' point of view it was a pitiful inch for a desired mile. Under a constitution devised during the height of the Mau Mau rebellion, some 130,000 carefully screened voters representing Kenya's more than 5,500,000 Africans were allowed to vote for eight black members of the national Legislative Council...
...Price of Leadership. In both Britain and France, at the height of the dispute over U.S. embargoes on trade with Communist China, the press was quick to view the violence as evidence not only that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will bite the hand that feeds him, but has very few teeth left. Said the neutralist newspaper Le Monde: "The Nationalists have lost almost all hope of winning back China. This sense of frustration naturally nourishes the feeling of latent bitterness against the Americans." If the riots "lead to fresh thinking about Formosa," said the Manchester Guardian, "they will have done...
...influenza epidemic was at its height, and almost every man in the two companies of Students Army Training Corps recruits at Utah's Mormon Brigham Young University had the dreaded fever. Among them was Private Ernest Wilkinson-a short (5 ft. 5 in.), devout and dedicated boy who was then in his sophomore year at B.Y.U. As he prayed for recovery, young Wilkinson made a vow: If he lived, he would "do something great for the Lord's university...