Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the building pace is now the best since the war, Europe's population is growing at an even faster pace, and the countries already best off for homes (Scandinavia and Britain) are progressing better than those that need it most (eastern Europe, France, Italy and Turkey). The conclusion: "The gap between the better-off and the worse-off is widening...
...Good Measure. In the American League, the front-running Indians never slowed down, kept throwing their best pitchers at second-division clubs, and set a league record of in victories in a single season. Behind them, the second-place Yankees, moving just off the pace, came within one game of the major-league record for also-rans by winning 103 games, four more than they needed last season to win the pennant...
...great U.S. housing boom, which the experts have prematurely buried at regular intervals since World War II, was still setting new records. Housing starts in August, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, totaled 111,000, up 19% from a year ago. In Dallas the pace was so fast that there was a shortage of such supplies as wallboard, cement and plumbing equipment. In Levittown, Pa., where Mass Builder William J. Levitt showed off a new three-bedroom, two-living-room house (with garage) for $10,990, some 30,000 people stood in line to inspect it. In one week Levitt...
...other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a new construction field. He began laying pipelines, soon spotted the profits to be had from building power plants and oil refineries to keep pace with mushrooming demand. All a company had to do was tell Bechtel what it wanted and he would design and build...
Enclosed in one shell of cold plate glass and modernistic concrete blocks, the offices of Conant, his assistant and secretaries luxuriate in thick carpets and panelled walls. The physical plant seems intended to accommodate important events at a pace "perhaps five times as great." It is worlds apart from the comfortable tradition that pervades his former Cambridge office. In fact the only fixture that would look quite at home in either place is Conant himself, for he is among other things a Harvardman, and the great versatility that goes with that label will likely stand him in good stead...