Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard College education is on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, no one is forced to study in Cambridge before they reach the graduate level. The University faculty contains an impressive number of scholars--a few of whom are pictured here. But attendance is not required at lectures...
Mississippi Democrat Jamie L. Whitten, subcommittee chairman, summed up: "We are not trying to neglect civil defense ... If it were humanly possible and within financial reach to give complete protection from the atomic bomb . . . that would be the desire of all of us. But . . . you cannot build enough holes in the ground with all the money in the federal...
...white residential areas. White growth has pushed the locations farther & farther away from the center of the city, so that the blacks have to travel miles each day to & from work. Transport costs eat into their meager wages; most black workers have to rise at 4 a.m. to reach their work at 8, and do not get back home until 8 or 9 in the evening...
...Johannesburg set aside land at a place called Moroka, where 60,000 natives have built their own homes, unaided. In Moroka, there is one lavatory seat for every 250 persons. In Jabavu, one of the better locations, houses are built in blocks of three. The inside walls do not reach the roof, so separate families have no privacy. Any key opens any door. A black family's total average earnings (all members of it work) are ?15 a month; the average white worker's wage is ?50 a month...
Scarcely three months ago, the worst bottleneck in the defense production program was machine tools. But by last week, machine-tool makers had gotten, in rapid succession, super-priorities on metals and tools, the authority to reach far & wide for labor, and a 12% price boost. As a result, they were well launched on a 400% production expansion...