Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel. Danny Kaye's warmest and very nearly funniest movie, about a gentle, ingenious refugee escaping one jump ahead (and occasionally one jump behind) the Nazi invasion of France...
...elected head of the most populous state in the Union, the Governor of New York is traditionally a figure of considerable influence in national politics. Four men made the jump from Albany to the White House, while four other Governors were unsuccessful Presidential candidates. This fall, with a Senate seat also up for election, the campaign in the Empire State has once again assumed national prominence...
...stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself to its target by seeking out the heat produced by a plane's jet blast. The Chinese Reds have...
...current recession has knocked some holes in the theories. Recovery is well under way. but employment lags. The main reason is the surprising jump in productivity, far greater than in any previous recession-recovery period. Manufacturing employees' productivity rose 4% from January through July; for the whole year it will probably rise 6% to 7% v. an average annual increase of 3.2%-including virtually no increases at all in the last two years. A big reason for the spurt is that most of the record $100 billion that U.S. industry invested in new plant and equipment in the past...
...mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...