Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play in the nonferrous metals market. Copper shares rose up to 9^ points for the week, partly on the strength of copper strikes in Canada, Northern Rhodesia and New Mexico. Zinc and aluminum stocks also rose. The feeling that the U.S. economy on the climb again would be a spur to world business helped push up stocks in Europe (see Business Abroad...
...spur stereo broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission granted permission for FM stations to test stereo "multiplexing," a system that sends the two separate signals over a single radio frequency. New York City's WBAI started to broadcast stereo last week; WRCA-FM will begin next week. Manhattan's two-year-old Madison Fielding Corp. last month put out a multiplex stereo adapter that can be attached to any FM radio, turn it into a stereo set. Price...
President Pusey and Dean Bundy will meet with area chairmen and key workers during the coming month in major cities across the country in an effort to spur on the last donations before the December deadline...
Leighton's decision to leave University Hall to become Master was made, he said, "on the spur of the moment." However, the move indicates the increased importance of Dudley in the Harvard community. "The time has come to give Dudley full status as a House," Leighton said...
...Johns Hopkins' President Eisenhower is a key adviser to onetime Columbia University President Eisenhower in the field of education, encouraged Ike to call the 1955 White House Conference on Education, played a part in formulating this year's Administration program to provide U.S. aid to spur scientific education...