Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the West was growing 29% in population, the Central states registered a just-average 15%, the South lagged behind the national average with 13.5%, and the East lagged even further with just under 10%. Four states actually shrank in population during 1950-58: Arkansas, 8%; West Virginia, 2%; Vermont. 1.5%; Mississippi, 1%. Most striking exceptions to the slowish growth patterns of the East and South: Delaware's population expanded no less than 40% (rapid industrial growth drew in a lot of newcomers), Florida's a boom-sized...
...foreign countries since 1945, could not bear the burden alone, nor could any single nation. ¶ Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, onetime ambassador to Washington, and now chairman of Lloyds Bank, coined a vivid, if not quite precise, name for the new need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed that the world's industrial "north" form a committee, with the U.S. as full partner, to coordinate and share the burden of assistance to the nonindustrialized "southern" regions. "If twelve years ago the balance of the world turned...
...around 16; the students in the first session last summer, which covered libertarian philosophy, included an elderly osteopath and his wife from Arkansas, two teachers from Rockford, Ill., two Milwaukee businessmen, a young psychologist now at Columbia, a Baptist minister from Colorado, and a professional anti-Communist from the West Coast...
...need therefore not be accused of political opportunism. His views seem consistent, and in this your correspondent is quite correct. Rockefeller simply represents a right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background nor efficient handling of New York state problems should obscure this fact. The incidental agreement with his views on nuclear testing on the part of Dean Acheson and Harry Truman is therefore less significant than the more basic congruence of his views with those of Teller...
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