Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With less fuss, Oxford went about its own plans for a $7,000,000 science college. The new institution will take the name of the present, nonresidential St. Catherine's Society, house some 400 scholars. Proposed opening date for St. Catherine's College: October...
...especially in the U.S.: "Here is a middle class for whom life has lost meaning . . . Yet they are in search of a meaning, of an idea to devote themselves to, of an explanation of life which does not require faith or sacrifice." Often, he adds, patients "are much less concerned with being cured than with the exhilarating sensation of having found a spiritual home...
GERMAN COAL TARIFF of $4.76 per ton on all imports over 5,000,000 tons will cut U.S. exports to Germany (10 million tons in 1958), although U.S. coal is $4 per ton cheaper than coal from less efficient Ruhr mines. Bundestag responded to pressure from German miners, who were laid off as coal stocks rose from 750,000 tons in 1957 to 13 million tons...
...this week on the future of air freight. To Douglas Aircraft went a $4,250,000 contract to turn ten of American's piston-engined DC-7B airliners into air freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...
...Airlines for use in its new Boeing 707 jets. The seat automatically tips backward on impact until the passenger's spine is nearly horizontal, thus putting his whole body in a better position to withstand the shock. Because of its lower center of gravity, the seat is also less likely to be ripped from the floor...