Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech, one of the major efforts of his trip, the President urged all national leaders worthy of that designation to join in a truly enforceable system of disarmament...
...cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will recall 38,000 laid-off production workers. Ford Motor Co. is confident that it will be able to get by without a major stoppage...
...elder Whistler died in a cholera epidemic, James was old enough to enter West Point. In a chemistry exam, Cadet Whistler identified silicon as a gas, and West Point decided to do without him. "If silicon had been a gas," Whistler used to say, "I would have been a major-general...
Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along...
...biography of Hubert Lewright Eaton, 78, the man who made Forest Lawn what it is today. As Biographer St. Johns, 65, sees her subject, Eaton is not only the Henry Ford of the business, a man who has "revolutionized cemetery development throughout the English-speaking world," but also a major prophet who has helped to change mankind's conception of death...