Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although figures are not yet complete, it has been indicated that smallest enrollment drop will be in the Army unit. It is generally believed that introduction of the new three year active duty postponement will attract a larger number of students to this unit...
...clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock. City police, who had checked carefully and found no hint of trouble, followed routine patrols through the quiet streets. Then, at 9 p.m.. Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps. They unloaded tear-gas bombs, fixed bayonets, sealed off all doors, and set up a perimeter defense around the grounds-while a red-haired cigar-chomper named Sherman T. Clinger...
Speculating on the reasons for the great rise in land values, the report noted inflation and the fact that nowadays it takes more and more land for an efficient unit, which forces farmers themselves to bid up prices. It also added some new factors: increased urbanization and the dispersal of industry, which have diverted millions of acres of farmland for new highways, plants, shopping centers and other nonfarming projects. All combine, said the Agriculture Department, to "create a strong market for farmland"-and they give U.S. farmers solid ground to stand on, whatever the ups and downs...
...headquarters in Shensi province in 1934, she had all the right credentials: literary fame, a husband executed by the Central government for treason, a year in a Nationalist prison herself. Mao was so impressed that he promptly gave her a job (as vice chairman of a Red army guard unit), then proceeded to write a poem in praise both of Ting Ling and her new job, which by poetic license upgraded the job a bit. Sang Mao: "In the past a literary miss, she is now a General of Armies...
Money-losing (annual deficits more than $1,000,000) L'Unità's financial crisis was brought on by sharp cutbacks in its subsidies from Moscow and from the financially-pressed Italian Communist Party. But its most serious problem is shriveling circulation, now well below 300,000 from a 1953 peak of 1,574,000. So low has stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks...