Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suggested methods include the building of coffer dams around sites to protect them from the expected 180 to 200 foot rise in water level...
Cross Section. When he concluded his state paper on U.S. hopes for a prosperous, free world, the President took a chrome steel spade that was inscribed: Here, in the Heart of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the Lessons of Youth which shaped his rise to stalwart leader and fearless fighter for the rights of man in the era of liberty's greatest trial. He drove the spade into the ground and turned over the first pile of Abilene earth on the plot where the $3,000,000 Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable...
...wingspan: about 7 ft.) go through such distressingly gooney antics that Navymen long ago dubbed them gooney birds. Among other things, they need large, clear areas to take off and land, and they find airports ideal. The friendly gooney birds lay their big eggs on or near the runways, rise in clouds as if to welcome planes on landing or to see them off on takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that a Midway...
...confidence in the future. The latest survey by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission, taken after the strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...
First and foremost the Harvard Band is music. It can delight a Sym phony Hall audience or make the home stands rise with cheers to the strains of "Harvardiana." No band plays music quite as well. Whether it's the right choice of medleys, the special balance of the brasses, or something quite technical doesn't really matter. The Harvard Band has that something which makes the fight songs enthusiastic, the marches sharp, and the show tunes lively...