Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White, hardly a dynamic campaigner himself, seemed to be running behind until Louise blundered four weeks ago by promising to increase the salaries of policemen and firemen without raising taxes. The money, she said, would come from Washington. White pointed out that the pay raise would add $26 per $1,000 of assessed value to the tax rate, and thereby captured votes in tax-conscious Irish neighborhoods that had previously gone overwhelmingly for Mrs. Hicks...
...because of its unique serviceability in Viet Nam. Ling-Temco-Vought, maker of the gull-winged propeller-driven Corsair fighter of World War II, produced the first craft in 18 months, has since delivered more than 125 Corsair IIs to the Navy, which has ordered 1,500 (estimated cost per craft: $1.4 million, v. $9.75 million for the F-111B). The Air Force has ordered approximately 500. The Corsair II will replace the Navy's A-4E Skyhawk and the Air Force's F-100 Super Sabre...
...this unprecedented prosperity is the astonishing productivity-the output of goods and services per man hour-that has trebled since 1917, far outstripping the performance of workers in any other industrial society (in 1960, European workers, for example, roughly reached the level of output attained by the American worker in 1925). In 1917, the U.S. farm worker could feed eight people; today, he feeds 40. In 1917, when the U.S. population was 103 million, the nation's gross national product was about $75 billion (in prices adjusted for inflation) compared with about $800 billion now, for a population...
...number of applications for the Harvard Medical School class of 1972 has risen 19 per cent over last year...
...Johnson forces in the state were enthusiastic about the prospect. But the politically astute among these were concerned that McCarthy might prove to be a "cream-puff." They had had their fill of educational campaigns with the 1962 Senate bid of H. Stuart Hughes, who rallied a whopping 2.4 per cent of the Massachusetts electorate to his cause...