Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brothers-have signed contracts with the N.F.W.A., elevating a laborer's average pay from $1.10 an hour to a minimum of $1.75. Other benefits such as medical care have also been won, along with more habitable work camps for the men and women who once lived in tar-paper shacks, battered buses, overaged trucks, in haystacks or under bridges...
...maintained that the plane is still too. heavy and thus ineffective for carrier duty. Connolly blurted: "There isn't enough power in all Christendom to make that airplane what we want!" That jolted Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius produced a secret study written by Connolly only last year, which praised the F-111B power plant to the skies. That set the admirals aground for a while-but left the future...
...undertaking of two unruly firebrands: Marshall Bloom, 23, who graduated from Amherst and later was temporarily suspended from the London School of Economics for organizing a student protest meeting; and Raymond Mungo, 21, who kept Boston University in a constant state of nerves when he edited the campus paper...
...coalition of protest. Under the bill, to be signed by President Johnson this week, the U.S. need no longer keep $10.4 billion in gold-or most of the total $11.4 billion gold supply the country currently holds-on hand as backing for 25% of the $41.6 billion in paper dollars presently in circulation. Henceforth, all the U.S. gold can be used if necessary to support the Gold Pool, in which the U.S. puts up 59% of the gold...
Above all, the administration did not expect the tutors to be critical of what they have done and are doing. On paper, the Shaw record is impressive. Since James Cheek took over as President in 1964, big changes have been made. Only six months after he was installed, the new President had pulled Shaw out of the red. In three years he has raised faculty salaries 150 per cent. Last year things looked so good that Cheek launched a $14.5 million building program. By almost any standard, the figures are encouraging...