Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League pennant race, Managers Al Lopez, 48, of the Cleveland Indians, and Bucky Harris, 59, of the Detroit Tigers, submitted their resignations. Said Lopez, who managed the Indians to one pennant and five second-place finishes in six years: "There's a feeling that we should have finished higher. The tension has been terrific." (This was the understatement of the week.) Harris brought his team in fifth both last year and this year. He figured he could never be the "fiery, aggressive manager" demanded by the syndicate that bought the club in midsummer. ¶College football started...
Journal, "that in the universal push to abolish illiteracy, we may create the phenomenon of literates illiterate in every higher sense...
Consumers were buying. The Federal Reserve reported that retail sales of nondurable goods last week jumped 8% higher than last year's levels. And a survey of bankers by the Clothing Manufacturers Association reported that retail sales are expected to keep on climbing in the fourth quarter of 1956 and on through the first six months...
Into the showrooms of 9,000 dealers this week rolled the new Fords, first of the Big Three's 1957 models. They are lower (by four inches), higher priced (from $1 to $104), more powerful (an optional 245 h.p. V8. v. the top 1956 225 h.p. V-8). For the first time. Ford also has two body sizes and two wheel-bases. Customers will have the choice of the 116-in. wheelbase Custom, three inches longer than in '56, or the higher-priced 118-in. wheelbase Fairlane, fully five inches longer. Where Ford virtuously sold safety...
Even had the President secured passage of his education bill, it would have been inadequate. The Eisenhower administration concerned itself only with school construction, whereas the program proposed by Stevenson in his latest New America report asks in addition for aid for teachers' salaries, government scholarships for higher education, increased foreign student exchange, and the encouragement of adult education...