Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued bitterly against the prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global...
...economic situation today?" crowed the People's Daily: "Excellent, excellent, excellent." And out poured the mixture as before-a jumble of percentages with no base points and wildly improbable production figures. The new claims: for the first nine months of 1959, industrial production was running 45.6% higher than last year, steel production 67% and coal production 72%. Ironore production, added Peking, stood at 76.5 million tons, three times the figure for all of 1958. And just to show that nothing is too small to be transformed by the Marxist miracle, Mao's drumbeaters reported that near Dairen...
...humble hotdog is H.S.A.'s biggest money-maker. One year ago the Stadium Concessions Agency took over food and program sales at football games from an outside professional organization. Sales rose 25 per cent the first year and may go even higher this season. Net profit to the managers and employees of Stadium Concessions reached nearly $10,000, a fifth of the total for H.S.A. as a whole...
...Health contributed over $855,000 for the construction of the 60-man laboratory, with the Program for Harvard College and private donations financing the rest of the cost. Secretary Flemming also praised this cooperation, stating that the federal government "should continue to help finance expansion at institutes of higher learning without undermining their academic freedom." "A partnership symbolized by this building has developed between the government and higher education," the Secretary commented. He expressed the hope that the Government would continue to sponsor construction by American colleges "to help young people realize their best potentialities...
First pressings show the grapes to have a potential 14% alcohol content (1% to 2½% higher than normal) and low acidity. At the same time, the full ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes...