Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME's Education Department, which frequently supplies TIME-using high school and college classes with teaching aids, has on hand a supply of a full-color newsmap of the world. Readers may have a free copy by writing to TIME Maps, 540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois...
...growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a point to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). That was two-tenths of a point below last November's record high, and only four-tenths of a point above the March 1958 level...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration approved models of one-ton mushroom-shaped satellite capsules designed to fly men into space in the early 1960s. The model satellites survived preliminary tests of rocket shots into the atmosphere, drops from high-altitude aircraft, wind-tunnel speeds of 10,000 m.p.h., and justified what NASA termed "significant progress" toward "a safe and reliable, manned satellite capsule...
Predictably, the biggest vote for high supports came from the grain fields of the Midwest. Yet even in Iowa, most subsidy-minded of all states, better than half of the farmers favored lower supports or none. The voting, by areas...
...raddled grey-black fog festooned the sea off the New Jersey coast. Homeward bound after a twelve-day Caribbean cruise, the Grace Line's slick, new 20,000-ton luxury liner Santa Rosa steamed north, making a high-speed 20 knots in dangerous, heavily traveled waters. Her voyage was scheduled to end at her New York berth in just five hours...