Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jupiter's interservice rival, the Air Force's Thor. was successfully fired for the third time-this time over a record-breaking 2,500-mile range (but without the target-seeking accuracy of Jupiter, the Army groused in a fresh outburst of characteristic Pentagon hostility...
...juggled the figures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up last week with the sad news that the Government's Consumer Price Index inched upward in September for the 13th month in a row. The new mark was one-tenth of 1% over August, for a record high...
...council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...
...mayor can be a big fish in national Democratic waters; in addition, New York's Wagner wants desperately to be elected to the U.S. Senate (he lost last year to Republican Jacob Javits by 450,000 votes), where his father, the late Robert F. Wagner Sr., left a record as a promoter of organized labor. For another crack at the Senate, Wagner must roll up a big vote next week; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio has passed the word that Wagner needs a 1,000,000-vote plurality to go places nationally...
Forbes took a gamble on the growing national discontent over big-labor brass, tagged Meyner as a tool of the state's C.I.O. bosses, hoped thereby to pick up some rank-and-file votes. He played relentlessly on Meyner's record budget (up $21 million since Meyner took office), warned New Jersey to "Get a new governor or get new taxes." For his part, Democrat Meyner continued to campaign like a man with his ears plugged. Confident that he would win, he did everything he could to avoid rocking the boat. Anxious to prove that he could...