Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sensational Effects. In its report on the U.S., FAO details the higher levels of productivity that are the hope of the rest of the world. From 1939 to 1954, the number of U.S. farm workers declined from 11.5 to 8.5 million-yet productivity of U.S. acreage has increased by 47%. Corn yields have increased from the prewar 1.6 tons per hectare (2,471 acres) to an average 2.4 tons...
FORDS FOR '56 will be lower (down 1 in. for two-and four-door sedans), and higher-powered but little changed in appearance. Higher-priced models will have the Thunderbird Y-8 motor (up to 202 h.p.). Thunderbird production has topped 16,000 in its first year, 25% more than Ford anticipated, but still less than demand...
...result, the U.S. has been losing its foreign sources of raw copper. Last month, as West European buyers offered prices 5? to io/ higher than the U.S., Chile, normally the U.S.'s biggest single foreign source, began sending most of its production to Europe, instead...
...straightaway lines on the rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument panel. Price: less than...
...literary world is one of catastrophic oppositions. As Author Mann developed, the problem took many forms-the artist v. the bourgeois, the criminal v. society, Nietzsche v. Goethe, disease v. conformity, Asia v. Europe, music v. reason. On one occasion, Mann was able to wed his antitheses into a higher reality. The moment came in the lyric, mysterious "snow scene" in The Magic Mountain, in which substance and accidents, skies and devils dissolve in the "white darkness" of the snow. It was one of the really astounding moments in modern literature, but it passed, and Mann was caught once again...