Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by Dr. E.F. Lindquist at the University of Iowa, the new program is scheduled to go into operation on Nov. 7 with between 200 and 300 colleges and universities in 14 states in the West, Midwest, and South participating...
Then those upstarts Out West decided that movie stars and smog weren't enough--they needed a baseball team also, two in fact. So the Giants finished third and the Dodgers seventh. 1959 prospects looked rosy. Then the ex-Polo Grounders pulled their 1951 rally in reverse, and nails were chewed all along the Big Sur--until Larry Sherry...
...ticks. The viruses have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan...
...told, Detroit is betting $700 million on these cars-about $150 million on the Corvair, $100 million each for Falcon and Valiant, $350 million for the "bigger" compacts. How well this huge gamble pays off will affect not only Detroit, but automakers and buyers round the world. Says West Germany's Heinz Nordhoff, president of Volkswagen, with some understatement: "1960 will be the most interesting year in the history of the U.S. automobile industry...
This year Cole's Chevy Division will produce nearly 1,500,000 cars, 27% of the U.S. total and more than either West Germany or Britain made in 1958. It will gobble up more steel (4,000,000-plus tons) than Sweden makes. Its sales (retail: $3.5 billion) are double the gross national product of Ireland...