Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Integration may spur a general exodus of white citizens from the capital. In one year the number of white students in Washington schools dropped from 38,768 to 34,750, now accounts for only 32% of the school population. "In the not-too-distant future," said the committee, "the District of Columbia will be a predominantly Negro community...
...approach the dimensions of the Mellon Foundation's $15 million gift to Yale University last spring, but Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey and new Program chairman H. Irving Pratt of New York are now pushing for the large gifts, hoping that the end of the recession will spur these...
...career -assistant professor of economics at Vermont University, Vermont State banking and insurance commissioner-he has been busy improvising modern banking methods for modern days. Joining National Life in 1935 as an investment analyst, he arrived shortly after the New Deal brought out its Federal Housing Administration to spur home building. While other money men cried socialism and hung back, Meredith turned National Life to investing in FHA, by 1946 had 42% of its money in government mortgages...
...many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing machine. The minister's major domo is a Machiavelli in bell-boy's clothes, while the underling who must constantly rewrite his chief's spur of the moment decrees is a charming harassed guppy...
...three times that amount. In his new $20,000-a-year job, which he plans to start early next year, Tallamy will be responsible for one of the most ambitious single public-works projects in history-41,000 miles of superhighways as well as hundreds of miles of spur and connecting roads stretching into every corner of the U.S. Says Highway Administrator Tallamy: "The highway program will not only bring more rapid and safer transportation, but will also lead to a decentralization of industry. All along the new highway system new industries will spring...