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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring McCarthy heard that there was an opening in Providence for the job of U.S. marshal. He filled out a lengthy application and shipped it out. Sure enough, party men at the state level as well as those in Washington, D.C. remembered Steelworker McCarthy. This week, upon appointment by the President, Ed McCarthy, 47, quit his $5,000-a-year job at the plant and was sworn in as the $7,500-a-year Marshal of the Federal District Court, Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Patronage | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Science has been passed up on the high-school level," says Silber. "It usually is presented in an uninteresting manner, and as a result, the students are shying away. I'm sure we're helping to break down that barrier." Silber can prove his point. All five of last year's seniors are going to college, will either major in science subjects or take many such courses along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Researchers | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

FARM INCOMES are rising steadily. With farm assets at an alltime peak (TIME, Sept. 9), index of farmers' prices jumped 1% in August-the sixth straight monthly rise-to reach highest level in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will be necessary to call forth a high wave of new production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Autumn Upturn | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

FORD'S EDSEL is off to a fast start. On first sales day, company took orders for 6,649 cars, and more than 2,500,000 auto fans went to showrooms to view new model. Present production, level: more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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