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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aristocratic "bomb" of the auto industry. It traveled the flying mile with its 392-cu. in., 375-h.p. engine logged at 134.128 m.p.h., 5.245 miles slower than last year's Chrysler 300-B with a smaller engine. In acceleration tests (a mile run from a standing start) the 300-C set a new record of 86.873 m.p.h. The hefty 300-h.p., 364-cu. in. Buick Century ran second in the flying mile with a creditable 130.766 m.p.h., but in acceleration it was a sluggish also-ran. A supercharged 300-h.p. Ford ran third in the flying mile with...
...would simply be wasting everybody's time. Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner (Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury) need not have worried. Last week, as he began his five-month tenure as the University of Virginia's first visiting "writer in residence," he proved from the start that in his own quiet, philosophic way, he would give his students plenty to talk about...
...broadcasts that brought Negro teachers into white classrooms and white teachers into Negro classrooms via TV. In 1953 teachers began holding a series of interracial conferences on the problems that integration would produce. Finally, after opening day in September 1954, the Washington Daily News reported: SCHOOL INTEGRATION GETS SMOOTH START...
...sales back ahead of cash-ins, the Treasury last week asked Congress to permit a boost in rates, retroactive to Feb. 1 on all new bonds. It wants to raise Series E and H interest rates to 3¼% as a start, boost rates as high as 4¼% if necessary...
...mines and mills have a daily ore-processing capacity of 6,000 tons, double the largest U.S. operation), their output will be only a fraction of Rio Tinto's eventual production. The company's three Northspan mines ($275 million in government contracts) are set to start producing before the end of 1957; its Milliken Lake mine ($94 million in contracts) by March 1958. Rio Tinto's smaller Pronto mine (1,250 tons of ore daily) was opened in 1955 but ran into production troubles, now being taken care of in an enlargement of capacity...