Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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1960 CONSTRUCTION will hold steady, the Department of Commerce forecasts. Construction dollar outlays will rise by 2% to $55.3 billion, but the increase will be because of higher prices.
$100 MILLION DOWNTOWN center is planned in Houston. Named after the late oil tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen, the twelve-acre center will be privately financed, have a 500-room hotel and three office buildings with a total of 1,650,000 sq. ft. of office space, all connected by air...
The vote will probably be no-as it has always been in such cases-but industry was gambling that there would be enough yeses to embarrass McDonald. In any case, union leaders are not bound by the vote; they can call another strike even if workers want to accept the...
From these undisputed facts, Dulles proceeded to the hotly disputed question of comparative growth rates. Since 1950, he said, Russia's G.N.P. has been expanding at a rate of 7% a year-"at least twice" the rate of about 3% for the U.S. in the past six or seven...
The textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1...