Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [June 18] pinpoints a growing worry among serious educators, businessmen and industrial leaders: What is being done to stimulate an interest in the study of mathematics on the high-school level...
Just three weeks and one day after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery...
After holding remarkably steady for nearly three years, the U.S. cost of living is once again at a record level. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that its Consumer Price Index (1947-49 = 100) jumped sharply (.4%) between April and May to match the alltime high of 115.4 set in October 1953. Main reason: a substantial increase in the cost of food, largely because of the upswing in beef, pork and potato prices. Main result: a 1?-an-hour wage increase for more than 100,000 workers whose pay is geared to the index. Government forecasters, with...
...workers at the Stalin Locomotive Works had been paid higher wages than most of their neighbors, because they were making military equipment. Three weeks ago, when the military orders were cut back for lack of raw materials, the Communist management slashed the workers' wages 30% to the starvation level normal for Polish workers (a month's work for a pair of leather shoes). The locomotive workers sent a delegation to Warsaw's Communist bureaucrats to plead their case, but, having little hope of relief, they organized a strike...
...week's end the desperate bus company consented to reduce its fares to the old level. "We hope," said one official, aghast at the violence, "that this will stop some of the bloodshed." Some South Africans drew another lesson from it: the uncontrollable power of savage anger when South Africa's blacks are aroused...