Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of new canals and ditches to irrigate an estimated 150,000 acres of barren southern plains around the capital city of Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living by herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again...
...first-level restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th birthday. The guest list read like a bluebook of aviation, and most of the guests, now generals, admirals, statesmen or heads of corporations, had known and admired Von Karman and his eccentric genius for decades. Without the principles of aerodynamics that he discovered, they could not be building or flying high-speed modern aircraft...
...annually for the next ten years, with a total capacity for U.S. Steel of nearly 50 million tons by 1966. The cost will be $5 billion, and to finance it; U.S. Steel must have higher prices. Said Big Steel's Blough: ''Our profits, at their present level, could neither support nor finance the heavy capital expenditures that we must make." Blough's statement poured added fuel on a hot debate blazing through U.S. industry: Should steel prices go up this year, and if so, by how much...
Under the proposed change, English honors students could substitute a modern language for Latin. Although final plans have not yet been formulated, the department will probably require a greater level of proficiency if a student chooses a modern language instead of Latin...
...Featherbedding occurs at top level management and extends down to the rank of foremen," said A.I.M. in a report to its 17,000 members. And one of the biggest causes of featherbedding is nepotism. In more than half of the 23,000 U.S. companies A.I.M. studied, an executive had put his sons, cousins, brothers -even an assortment of relatives-on the payroll...