Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicted that the U.S. faced an "inevitable" postwar depression. The bull did go off his feed a bit in 1949, but it was only a mild case of colic. He kept growing and growing, appeared on the cover again in June 1950, as U.S. business kept on expanding to meet the needs of an exploding population...
...Plenum while it was going on. By this precedent-smashing maneuver, Nikita Khrushchev sought to broadcast as swiftly and dramatically as possible his speech signaling a shift in Soviet agricultural policy. Acting so abruptly, in such untimely fashion just six weeks before the 21st Party Congress is due to meet, Boss Nikita gave many the idea that he was in something of a sweat...
...furor has ceased to be fashionable. Typically, he orates: "We are like penguins wrapped in blubber. We have wrapped ourselves in such a layer of luxury we are virtually impervious to what goes on in the world around us. We may be unable to wake up in time to meet the crisis that Sputnik graphically posed...
When British Distance Star Gordon Pirie was invited to compete in a track meet at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the most logical Rhodesian to race against him was Yotham Muleya, a 19-year-old apprentice garage mechanic who earlier this year had set a national three-mile record. But Muleya is a Negro. This was enough for South Africa-born William DuBois. a dedicated white supremacist. As chairman of the Southern Rhodesian Amateur Athletic and Cycling Union, he forbade Muleya's competing...
...Line Pilots Association in Chicago for the first time since Oct. 1. Another hopeful sign in the clouded airlines situation was Eastern Airlines settlement this week with its striking machinists, who won pay raises of 44? to 49? an hour in top jobs. Eastern was scheduled to meet with striking flight engineers shortly after the settlement, hoped to clear up differences and resume services as soon as possible...