Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This decision to purchase the combat aircraft for 143 wings in a program limited to 120 wings . . . leaves most of these airplanes without units, people or bases, and the only alternative is to store them." Even the extra planes to be transferred to the Air National Guard would not be part of the ready Air Force. "With the kind of warning we expect to get of a Soviet atomic attack, the defense and strategic wings must be ready, some of the crews in planes at the end of the runway...
...former professor of education who was principal of the laboratory high school at the University of Minnesota, President Stout does not put too much store by conventional academic standards. He thinks that an emphasis on such "discipline" subjects as mathematics, languages and history is little more than "intellectual snobbery." Last fall, acting under this credo, Stout announced that Nevada would henceforth have no entrance standards at all, would take in any Nevada high-school graduate no matter what his ability or preparation. With that, the Stout v. Richardson battle...
...rest of the economy, said a top Government economist last week, "the 1953 outlook is brighter now than it was two months ago." There were plenty of figures to back up Washington's optimism. In May, the Commerce Department reported, department-store sales hit the highest level ever, except in the war-scare months of July 1950 and June 1951. Personal income was still rising, industrial production (242 on the Federal Reserve index) was within a hair of its peacetime high, and a record of $12.6 billion in new construction was started in 1953's first five months...
...Agriculture True D. Morse called an emergency conference on corn-storage problems in Des Moines and urged farmers to build more storage bins of their own. Said he: "We are moving forward on the premise that grain storage should not be run by the Government. It should be stored . . . on the farm, and when it leaves the farm, it should be handled by commercial people ... I fear that if the Government must resort to buying bins and putting them up to store corn, we will have to look at the bins in the future as monuments to the failure...
Hoagland already owns a drug store and a restaurant, so he was able to turn full attention to the problem of afternoon seating for his wife, six children and--University Hall officials are really generous--his three grandchildren...