Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, could give McCurdy's men a difficult time in the coming dual meet on Feb. 6, at Hanover. Freshman Tom Laris, who covered two miles in an unbelievable 9:08.9 to finish third in the K. of C. meet, gives a hint of the Big Green's growing strength...
...course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress to amend the Employment Act of 1946 by adding "reasonable price stability" to the other economic goals-"maximum production, employment and purchasing power"-that the Federal...
Summarizing the vastly improved strength of the economy, the President said: "Factors that influence decisions on business capital outlays have become more favorable, and an upturn may already be under way. Residential construction outlays should contribute further to economic expansion. Combined outlays of federal, state and local government units will continue to rise...
...manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...
...months the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 roads, talked, thought and studied. Last week the Central flashed the red board. It announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among Eastern railroads in regard to merger." While studies of the Pennsy merger indicated that "savings are possible from both coordination...