Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad the U.S. has not yet penetrated outer space. The American spacemen would want to start a "democracy" on the moon. I am sure the moon people would not like to send their children to separate schools just because their skin is green...
What this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
...Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...
...West Germany, the Korean war was a commercial opportunity. Without the necessity for fast rearmament, West Germany's reviving heavy industries were in a position to move into many foreign markets hitherto the preserves of Britain, France and even the preoccupied Americans. Erhard urged German firms to send their salesmen hotfooting after their old South American markets. Orders poured back into Germany, but in the wild scramble for raw materials, domestic prices rose alarmingly...
...exist, can be painful. On Manhattan Island, there are nearly twice as many Negro and Puerto Rican students of elementary and junior high school age as there are white students. Because of residential patterns, however, white students tend to congregate in a few good New York public schools which send large groups of students to college. Negroes and Puerto Ricans, on the other hand, crowd the "difficult schools," where a lack of experienced teachers and a downgraded curriculum destroy any opportunities they might otherwise have...