Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THAT ARKANSAS HAS TAKEN THE FIRST GIANT STEP TOWARD SECESSION, WE CAN USE ALL THOSE OLD-FASHIONED FLAGS WITH 48 STARS...
Under these conditions, Halsey continued, higher education in England has assured three major characteristics. First "the balance is much more heavily weighted toward the humanities than in the United States." Secondly, the training is exclusive: the students are a tiny privileged minority group." Thirdly, the universities form a "hierarchy of prestige, reflective of the class system of the country...
...alloys (probably tungsten-molybdenum-nickel) will be needed for the walls of the thrust chamber, whose temperature will rise from 1,000°-1,200° range to the 1,800°-2,000° range. Combustion-chamber pressure will rise from the current 300-500-lb. range toward 1,000 Ibs. per sq. in. The turbopumps that deliver fuel to existing engines demand 3,000 h.p.-4,000 h.p. The pumps of the new engine will need 30,000 h.p.-40,000 h.p. -the equivalent of the power delivered by the six jet engines...
This years-long struggle toward efficiency went little noticed during the fat times of the earlier 19503, when almost all producers were pouring and earning close to 100% capacity. But it was during the lean months of 1958 that the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, demonstrated that it is no longer a cyclical industry of feast or famine. Steel can now operate profitably in slump periods when many another industry is forced into...
...common market will get under way Jan. i when the member countries-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands-cut their duties to each other by 10%, the first step toward eventually removing all duties within the area. Hundreds of U.S. firms are already preparing for market opportunities. Ford International opened a special office in Brussels to guide its European operations into the common market. H. J. Heinz bought a Dutch plant to produce its 57 varieties for Europe, and Du Pont is hunting for plants in Holland and Belgium. Other branches or new factories have been...