Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area larger than the six New England states combined-are already given over to public recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...
...taking the stained glass out of the windows on one side of the building and setting up the steel stands that were removed from the stadium, a perfect gallery could be provided, and one portion of the balcony in Sanders could be converted to house the Basques who play the game...
Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), which gave more than $350,000 in 1954, matches its scholarships with equal gifts to each campus. U.S. Steel last year gave $700,000 in unrestricted gifts with the hope that "the institutions find their own individual means of using a portion of each grant for faculty development and compensation." Since 1953 Bethlehem Steel has given $321,000 to the colleges-if privately endowed-of young employees who have completed the company's tough collegiate training program. The Columbia Broadcasting System is giving $32,000 to the alma maters of its own selected executives...
...writer to amass a fortune than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Writes Critic Malcolm Cowley in his appraisal of The Literary Situation: "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and westerns, I doubt that 200 Americans earned the major portion of their income, year after year, by writing hard-cover books." The 1950 census counted 16,184 authors in the U.S. (6,235 of them women...
Starting with steel, Vickers first pushed into shipbuilding, by 1900 was building a large portion of Britain's fleet and its first submarine. In World War I, Vickers saw new business in the budding air age, turned out the Vickers "gun bus," one of the world's first planes armed with machine guns (which Vickers also produced). Later, the first flight across the Atlantic was made by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers "Vimy...