Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This week President Eisenhower sent Rickover's name to the Senate with the recommendation that his temporary rank of rear admiral be made permanent...
...hardly a sign of malnutrition that Utah ranks 37th in the U.S. in the amount spent on each [school] pupil [TIME, Jan. 11]. That is exactly where we rank with other states in our ability to support public schools, as measured by the total personal income per enrolled pupil . . . Despite our low rank in ability to support education, we nevertheless lead the nation in our efforts to do so, as measured by the percentage of personal income devoted to our schools. Comparison of the amount expended per school child is not always a good indicator of the quality of education...
...have no "teachers' colleges," as you implied) corresponds to the general decline in overall enrollment at these institutions . . . Your statement that 400 teachers in Utah, angered over their salaries, quit their jobs in disgust, is far-fetched and leaves an erroneous impression. In 1952-53, despite our low rank in ability to support education, Utah paid its teachers a higher salary than the average of our surrounding states and higher than the national average . . . All factors considered, we are doing well by the teachers in Utah...
...with the leadership of their particular unit (Local 28 of the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers of America). Only 26% revealed favorable attitudes toward the leaders, and 47% were positively hostile, largely because of the local's record of left-wing tendencies and a strike in 1948 that many rank & filers opposed...
Major Martin had done his job and done it well. His body still lies in the cemetery at Huelva, where burial was arranged by the British vice consul. The inscription on his gravestone bears the name "William Martin." There is no mention of his rank...