Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bowl, and half-succeeding. The cavernous, turquoise-walled main room rises in tiers from an elevated stage that could double as a soccer field. The reservation crowd ("We like nobody off the street") comes mostly from Brooklyn; whole families take tables together, and women's clubs sit in solid platoons. Girls dance with one another, little boys with their sisters...
...tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed excitedly to the site, ordered it sealed...
...slump bill designed to pump up to $1.85 billion in Government funds into the housing market, already clipping along toward 1,050,000 new housing starts this year. Its goal: to raise the totals by another 100,000 houses, create 500,000 new jobs this year, and lay a solid floor under those sagging industries that lean heavily on home construction-appliances, lumber, transport...
Whether or not the plan actually results in another 100,000 new houses, it should at least give housing a solid push along its road to recovery. From last year's disappointing record of 990,000 starts, home building jumped in January to an annual rate of 1,030,000 starts, about 3% better than expected. Although storms and snow chilled the pace in February and March, builders point to a continuing uptrend in the South and West, expect the first sign of spring to thaw out a rush of weather-stalled starts...
MISSILE TURNABOUT by the Army, which previously researched and developed its own tactical missiles, will give Baltimore's Martin Co. job of developing Pershing solid-fuel rocket (range: about 800 miles) to replace liquid-fuel Redstone (range: 200 miles...