Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment, the 1958 recession's lingering hangover, faded fast last month to the lowest total (3,625,000) and the lowest percentage (5.3%) since December 1957. Workers went back on payrolls in April at twice the normal seasonal rate, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million...
Expansion is a dirty word. The Administration would rather use such euphemisms as "natural growth," and "normal expansion of facilities," or, more frequently, not discuss the subject at all. Despite attempts to becloud the issue, however, it is quite clear that the College is committed to a policy of substantial expansion...
Career. Born in Hunan province, close by the village of Mao Tse-tung, of middle-class peasants. Not even official Chinese sources give a consistent birthdate, though he is probably 61. Mao and Liu attended the same normal school in industrial Changsha, early became Communists. By 1919 Liu had joined the staff of a Red newspaper edited by Mao Tse-tung, and been sent to the Soviet Union to study at Moscow's Far Eastern University...
...drivers without fault in accidents or who have no moving traffic violations (speeding, passing red lights, etc.) for three years; drivers with one accident or violation will pay current rates; those with two will pay 25% more than current rates; those with five or more will pay double normal rates...
...highest point, the counting rates were much smaller. During some two-minute stretches there were no counts at all. Says Van Allen: "My first thought was, 'Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!' But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again...