Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like Billy Mitchell, said the script) risking his career in obedience to higher duty...
...Magazine ad income, also higher than ever, has grown $114 million, to $782 million...
...missionaries in China and a Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Wisconsin, Lund took over Alabama in 1952. turned it coeducational, raised salaries and standards, won the reputation as perhaps the most adept college president in the state at persuading the legislature to give him-and the state higher education system as a whole-more money...
Families, Not Fishermen. The marina builders will have a hard time catching up with the boat-crazy U.S. public. With more leisure and higher pay than ever before, almost any U.S. worker can buy a boat, pay for it on time (33% down, 24 months for the balance) and go bouncing off over the whitecaps and away from crowded highways. The new yachtsmen want their boats for family fun instead of for a strictly masculine hobby...
...will come eventually to the docks, and can cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war, the dome on the State Capitol on Beacon Hill...