Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dorgan and McCarthy, however, think that the situation warrants immediate action and filed a new bill. It probably will be discussed in the Committee on Education carly next month, prior to a general vote...
...until a survey showed they were unjustified, Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine gave a flat no. His reason: "Earnings of your company in the [third quarter] are running at the reported annual rate of $1.9 billion, as against an annual average rate of $827 million in the best three years prior to 1950." While ESA had "no interest in control of profits arising from increased volume, greater productivity or decreased expenses . . . sellers should not increase prices in order to make greater profits than were made before the Korea outbreak...
...down from the mountains to Hamhung. Altogether some 60,000 men of X Corps, including two R.O.K. divisions, were in the port area awaiting evacuation by a huge fleet of allied ships. Fresh troops, mostly 3rd and 7th Division units which had not been chewed up by prior fighting, manned a defense perimeter around Hungnam, the port...
...Prior to his 1935 entrance to public life, Dr. Tsiang was head of the History Department of Peiping's National Tsinghua University...
...year of college education prior to military service, the Regents said, would result in a "gain in maturity of judgment, which is most important both for the young people involved and for the total welfare of this nation...