Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very little has been done since then to implement world trade's congressional victory. A recent series of Administration actions gives evidence that the traditional undertow of protectionism is still stronger than the tide of free trade. Items...
...leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." For those who questioned the practicability of such a school, Morrill had a ready answer. Out in Michigan, the first state school to teach agriculture was "in the full tide of successful experiment...
This week, at the age of 100, Michigan State University at East Lansing was still operating at full tide. As part of its year-long birthday celebration, it assembled a giant farm-machinery exposition of some $30 million worth of equipment. There were corn pickers and cotton pickers, weeders, tractors, and combines of every type. By week's end, 250,000 people, including the touring Soviet farmers, are expected to have seen the show. But more impressive than the machinery on display was Michigan State itself...
...away a big slice of the international shipbuilding market. Foreign orders for 1955's first half alone have hit 250,000 tons, some 114,000 tons more than all of 1954. Among the 13 nations that have ordered tankers and freighters from France: the U.S. (four tankers for Tide Water Associated Oil Co.), Britain, Holland and Norway, all traditional maritime powers that normally build their own ships...
...symphony in San Diego was in the doldrums, and hating it, and Conductor Shaw was riding the high tide of success, and hating it too. Restless, volatile Bob Shaw felt that he had come as far as he could with Manhattan's famed amateur Collegiate Chorale, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the smaller voice groups that ballooned him from a $35-a-week arranger for Fred Waring to a creative, sensitive stylist who could make some $75,000 a year. Shaw was looking for an orchestra to work and learn with. When San Diego issued the call, he lost...