Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolstering Wilson's point, another top-level Administration spokesman declared that to give LeMay everything he wants for SAC (including a force of 1,800 B-525 in 1958 rather than the 500 now planned) would require an immediate increase of $55 billion in SAC appropriations. "Curt LeMay," said the spokesman half in admiration, "thinks only...
HEAVYWEIGHT TRAINS, almost three times heavier than new lightweight trains now in vogue, will be put on the road by the Santa Fe. Despite lightweight hoopla, Santa Fe will spend $13 million to equip its El Capitan streamliner with 47 "hi-level" cars two feet higher than conventional coaches, will seat passengers on a deck eight feet above wheels...
...defunct Middlesex Medical College was offered to a hastily-organized group of Boston businessmen. Middlesex was founded by Dr. John Hall Smith, an old New Englander who reacted against discrimination by other medical schools. Smith succeeded in maintaining a non-discriminatory admissions policy, but failed to maintain a satisfactory level of instruction...
There is now informal fencing competition, which has been so popular that it may be elevated to the intercollegiate level next year...
Tubby said that far from avoiding "egg-heads," Stevenson had been receiving advice right along from many intellectuals, including Schlesinger. He pointed out that the campaign so far is still on the primary level...