Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...island's industrial boom, less spectacular than West Germany's, is in absolute dimensions far bigger. In the first six months of 1954 Britain's industrial production increased by 6½%. Between 1946 and 1953 British oil refineries have boosted production from 2,400,000 to more than 23 million tons; British steel production, up 5.4% this year, has reached 19 million tons a year-enough for Britain's annual production of 1,000,000 cars and trucks, about a quarter of the world's new ships, and well over half the total of Western...
Most of the doctors make such small salaries from government hospitals and the laborers' free-care institutes that they maintain private practices on the side. But with Brazil's spectacular rise in the cost of living, working-class sick or injured now flock to the free-care centers and private practice has sagged...
...polo-playing six-footer, Ramfis has already had a spectacular career. When he was seven, his father made him an honorary colonel in the army, and all lesser ranks had to salute him. He studied law with tutors, but after graduation from the national university entered active army service as a second lieutenant and soon worked his way up to major general in the air force, a rise all the more remarkable because he is not a pilot...
...contributed about $12 million to community projects--partly in the form of technical advisers--since the beginning of the program in 1952. The amount of U. S. aid is small--only about 10 per cent of the Indian contribution--but the results have so far been spectacular...
...this gradual development that brought Harvard to the Yale game in superior physical and mental condition. And it was this emphasis on conditioning and fundamentals that allowed the Crimson to wear down the more spectacular Yale team with blocking and tackling, and remove a nine point deficit with two fourth quarter touchdowns...