Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME tried some fancy rewriting of history when it reported [Feb. 16] that the N.A.A.C.P., the United Automobile Workers, and the Americans for Democratic Action "killed" Part III "out of the 1957 [civil rights] bill by mutual agreement." I would like to set the record straight on behalf of all three organizations...
...their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack, in which it surfaced ten times through the ice to demonstrate its ability, as a Navy announcement put it last week, "to operate at any time of year in polar regions...
...long-swirling debate about how to achieve prosperity without inflation is the fact that since recession-shadowed early 1958 the U.S. economy has sensationally achieved just that (see chart). Last week Administration officials reported that the U.S.'s gross national product added up to an alltime record rate of $464 billion a year in the first quarter of 1959-a hefty $37 billion above the first quarter...
...solid growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a point to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). That was two-tenths of a point below last November's record high, and only four-tenths of a point above the March 1958 level...
...Federal Reserve Board reported that February industrial production rose to 144, seasonally adjusted (1947-49 = 100). This is only three points under the record high set December...