Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep his hand...
FEBRUARY BABY? asked the News Chronicle, but all the palace would say was that the royal personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
Paying a Little Back. Tijerina soon opened nine more schools, got strong support from Texas Governor Price Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ordered high schools opened this week-nearly a month ahead of schedule. Announced reason: the 2,500 students, including six Negroes newly assigned to Central and Hall high schools (compared to the embattled nine at Central in 1957), will need judicious counseling before classes start...
This week National announced that Jim Price had got his plants-nine of them in as many states-through a merger with seven other U.S. home suppliers. Seven of the nine plants are in areas where National formerly sold no houses; they put National's network of twelve factories within a 200-mile radius of almost every major market east of the Rockies. With his new acquisitions Price this year expects to boost National's sales to $100 million, its production to 45,000 units-4.3% of all single-family, nonfarm houses built...