Word: inge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name colleges, mostly in the East, have really felt the first impact of the great tidal wave. Though the number of high-school students who go on to college has jumped from 15% in 1940 to 40%, the nation's 1,800 institutions of higher learn ing can still keep up with the demand. But what of the years immediately ahead? By the time the present crop of first-graders is ready for college, says Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. of Yale, en rollments may soar to between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000. What the favored...
...along by it. When the drift angle reaches a maximum, he turns downstream until the drift angle falls to zero. Then he knows that he is flying in the center of the jet stream. If the stream curves, as it often does, the airplane can follow it by keep ing the drift angle at zero. When the "66" is hooked to the autopilot, the airplane will follow the stream automatically, getting maximum benefit...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...LEASE-PURCHASE" PLAN, under which Government hoped to buy back new federal buildings from private contractors on installment plan, is be ing stalled by tight money. No acceptable bids have been found for eight of the nine planned buildings that were to be paid off over ten to 25 years. Reason: builders have trouble finding funds to finance projects, want more than Government's 4% maximum interest on deferred payments...
...average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering chaos of ships and men," the massacres in the beam of a German searchlight, the tragic survivors, a few of whom were found wander ing days later in England, not knowing "who they were or where they were...