Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once Chancellor of the Exchequer. "The Tories say that industrial production is at record levels," said Gaitskell. "They are right, of course, but 'record level' doesn't mean anything. It was at record levels all during the years of Labor government. What is important is the pace production is rising. From 1946 to 1951 [Labor years], production rose 35%, or 7% a year. Under the Tories in the last three years, it has risen only 10%, or 3% a year...
...economic collapse in the free world," Hoover said. "The United States has not had a major depression, as the Marxists had anticipated. On the contrary, we seem to be in a stronger position than ever before, and there is every indication that we can carry on the present pace indefinitely...
Right-hander Ted Brigham batted in two runs and scattered eight hits to pace the freshman baseball team to a 5'-3' triumph over Andover yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...with the C.I.O. Steelworkers, who have announced that they are out for a fat raise (but no guaranteed annual wage). A longer-term goal, laid out by Ben Fairless: expanding U.S. Steel's annual capacity from 38.9 million tons to 60.9 million tons by 1975-just to keep pace with the growing population. Blough, who likes his golf and spends as much time as possible at his country home in Hawley, Pa., where he often cooks for his wife and two daughters, professed to be unexcited by his new job. Said...
Permanent Part. As a history, The I Women's Army Corps is not unlike the WAC as an organization: sometimes stumbling over a mass of detail, sometimes clutching self-consciously at its literary skirts, it nevertheless manages to come out smiling and moving ahead at a brisk military pace...