Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas is again to be returned to the hands of the professional group...
Tangent or Great Circle? To build a track straight and level enough for missiles was a technical tour de force. Air Force experts selected a section of the Tularosa Basin, near Holloman, that is almost as flat as a frozen lake. While figuring theoretically how to lay out the 35,080-ft. track, they considered making it perfectly straight both up-and-down and sideways, but gave this up because the curvature of the earth (the earth considered as a sphere with a 4,000-mile radius) would require either a cut in the ground 35 ft. deep...
...General Electric's 1957 net jumped 16% to $2.84 a share, although sales went up only 6%. Earnings for the final quarter alone rose 21% over the year-ago level to 74? a share...
...BACKED MORTGAGES, which found few takers only several months ago, are coming back into favor. Among the reasons: rise in home building and general loosening of mortgage money, which has dropped interest rates on conventional mortgages close to FHA's 5¼% level...
...manufacture, sale and distribution of radio, television, radar and other electronic apparatus, and of monopolizing radio patent licensing in the U.S. Said the Government: "By this criminal indictment, we seek to restore competition in this significant industry so that all competitors of RCA can compete with it at every level from the research laboratory to the sale of end products...