Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's highest-paid executive ($511,249 in 1958), President Arthur B. Homer of Bethlehem Steel Corp. -Providence Technical High School, Providence...
...developer of polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk-Townsend Harris High School, New York City...
...headmaster of one of the nation's oldest prep schools, Andover's John M. Kemper-Western High School, Washington...
...this sort of thing." This "sort of thing" was such a rush to buy shares in British corporations that the Financial Times's share index soared to 259.7, up from 188.1 last fall. Many a broker grumbled that the invasion of new, little investors was forcing prices so high that yields for longtime investors were being sharply...
...sailor newly arrived in America, Jones did well enough: he successively commanded the sloop Providence, ship Alfred and sloop of war Ranger. But Jones was far from satisfied: infuriated at being placed No. 18 on the captains' seniority list, he flailed out in all directions, made enemies in high places, goaded his men to the point of mutiny...