Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard, glaring fact is that Detroit needs new industry, both to balance the auto industry's piecemeal emigration and to make the city less vulnerable to auto slumps. In February Mayor Louis C. Miriani created a high-level citizens' panel, the Detroit Industrial and Commercial Development Committee, dedicated to "maintaining and improving the economic climate," and its basic aim is to attract new industry...
...popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing to the adverse weather, some Administration economists argued that the neither-white-nor-black unemployment...
...have fresh outside air blown through on an average of every twelve hours, the atomic sub uses its original quota of air as long as it stays down. And that air is fouled by crew members' smoking, which in time can produce a higher monoxide level than did the old diesels. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide must be removed, by elaborate nitration processes, as fast as possible. When the two gases are present together, even in amounts that would be safe if considered separately, the monoxide reinforces the poisonous powers of the dioxide...
Killian, who spoke with the others to an audience of high school principals and math and science teachers in Washington, B.C., said it is futile to accelerate science education without raising the level of education in general, and that first there must be an end to "the mucker pose that it's smart to be anti-intellectual." He called for "a weeding out of the trivial, narrowly vocational subjects...
...storied gardens of Shiraz were a disappointment, but the taxis were flower-decked, and Author Sitwell caught a nocturnal glimpse of the annual migration of the Gashgai tribe, 400,000 men, women and children moving 7,000,000 head of cattle to summer pasture 15,000 ft. above sea level. Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar was "more beautiful than St. Mark's in Venice." The glories of Istanbul burst over Author Sitwell as he caught his first sight of its Imperial Mosques, bestriding the seven-hilled skyline ''like huge kettledrums with something menacing and martial...