Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guaranteeing to run with fewer squeaks and rattles. Still unanswered, for example, was the vital question of how much power Wilson & Co. would have over military procurement. Another major trouble was that agriculture was still (with the exception of products needed by industry) beyond the reach of the kind of central control imposed on industry...
...lack of drive to dominate other It expanded by picking up (rather easily) almost empty which its borders. Its rise is a story of internal growth, which shows no sign of slackening-thus confounding the Euro economists, both Marxist and conservative, who are certain industrialized nations must reach out for foreign markets. For better or worse, U.S. business just hasn't reached...
...production of Verdi's Don Carlo, rebuilt from scratch with brilliant new sets and costumes, and staged by bright Broadway Director Margaret Webster. He quickly followed that with an entirely new mounting of The Flying Dutchman, done almost equally well. To make a full season, Bing had to reach into the standard repertory (and the warehouse) for operas he had had neither time nor money to rebuild, e.g., Tristan, Faust, Trovatore, Traviata. But except for Traviata and Faust, which most critics panned, even the old productions came through with some grace. Finally came the success of the brilliant...
Under General Marshall's Universal Military Service and Training plan, laid before congress Wednesday, the draft would take men when they reach the age of 18, deferring them until the end of high school or a college year...
...prices by direct controls could not have much effect so long as food prices-which make up 40% of the Government's cost-of-living index-were uncontrolled. And they would be uncontrolled until Congress changed the Defense Production Act, which forbids control of farm prices until they reach the sky-high level of parity. Until then, there was little that Stabilizer Valentine could do about food prices. Even the Administration seemed to see the folly of trying to control everything but food. At year's end, President Truman announced that for the time being, the nation would...