Word: resultantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening began, in the tradition of Ike's black-tie stag dinners, with cocktails in the second-floor oval study. The party moved to the state dining room (main course: roast beef), then on to brandy and coffee in the book-lined, ground-floor library. Net reportorial result: an informal, wide-ranging press conference, with the President speaking his mind freely, unworried by direct quotations. Items...
...atoms-for-peace plan, he proposed in 1955 that an existing ship be equipped with an atomic power plant. Congress did him one better, the following year authorized an all-new nuclear vessel, turned the problem over to the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. The result is the $41 million, 22,000-ton Savannah, which, with its nuclear engine, will be capable of cruising without refueling for 350,000 miles over 3½ years...
...alltime high, with 6,053,000 at work and unemployment running lower than Ottawa economists dared expect only a few months ago. The number of jobless Canadians dropped sharply last month to 234,000, which is 3.7% of the labor force, compared with 10% in March 1958. As the result of stronger demand for Canadian raw materials in the bullish U.S. recovery, Canadian exports to the U.S. surged to $321.1 million in June (v. $233.6 million in June 1958), and overall exports were up to a one-month record of $519.9 million. Canada's index of industrial production...
...good result of polio's big ill wind was a rush for vaccinations. Ironically, one of the places that needed a scare to get the needles flashing again was Pittsburgh, where Dr. Jonas E. Salk developed the vaccine. Thanks largely to a Pittsburgh Press drive, more than 150,000 shots have been given in a month in community clinics, at an average charge of 75^?. In some areas vaccine supplies were exhausted for a while but soon replaced. So far the problem was only distribution, not a national shortage...
...minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London's midtown Marble Arch and Paris' midtown Arc de Triomphe, and with $28,000 in prize money at stake. The result was one of the zaniest races of all time...