Word: salts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great reinforced concrete dam at Kuibyshev stretches nearly three-fourths of a mile across the mighty Volga River. Behind it lies an artificial reservoir 1½ times the size of Great Salt Lake. In its construction, 6.5 billion cu. ft. of earth was excavated-more than was dug out in the building of the Panama Canal. The huge, pale grey power station housing the 20 turbines is 2,000 ft. long, 200 ft. high -twice as large in volume as the gingerbread skyscraper of Moscow University, the tallest building in Russia...
...Founder Smith formally organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have witnessed a triumphant march of Mormonism through bloody persecutions (Smith himself was killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from the U.S. and 1,700 native missionaries are hard at work...
...feast of philanthropy spread for U.S. colleges each year by the nation's business firms and foundations, the 130 nonaccredited small colleges are so far below the financial salt that most of them do not know what it tastes like. The viciously circular problem: to be eligible for most grants, colleges must be accredited, but to be accredited, they need grants that bring faculties, libraries and classroom buildings up to the levels required by the nation's six regional accrediting associations. Two years ago several of the fund-starved colleges pooled their problems (TIME, March 5, 1956), formed...
...something, something-and quality, too." The Bank of America plug brings two spacemen to life with the line, "We'd like to see something in earth money." During the one month that the ad ran on radio, the bank reported that time-plan loans were up 33%. One Salt Lake City station was so impressed with Freberg's words and music that it put on a half-hour show consisting of nothing but Freberg commercials...
...took pains to assure Western oilmen that it would honor all contracts, would not only maintain oil production but try to increase it. The British-French-American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. welcomed this feeling of sweet reasonableness, but in common with oilmen everywhere took it with a pinch of salt...