Word: followings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outlined three points that the U.S. should follow to achieve peace in the world. The country should first recreate a power equilibrium to offset the vacuum left at the end of World War II when Germany and Japan ceased to threaten Russia's borders...
...response to a rise in the general price level, is almost always inflationary. Wage increases put inevitable pressure on the price level, which eventually yields. To grant wage increases because of a rise in farm prices is simply giving into inflation, for more prices rises must soon follow. It is just this wage-price spiral that Mr. Wilson is trying to prevent...
...charges. Last week the Post Office said that it would soon start using trucks, instead of railroads, for short hauls within a 200-mile radius of big cities. Truck routes have already been laid out around Boston and St. Louis, with plans for nine other big-city areas to follow. Eventual revenue loss to U.S. railroads, already hard hit by truck competition: $100 million a year...
...going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort craft were afraid to follow directly. Shortly after 3 a.m. the Barb went in. It was a submariner's dream: some 30 ships lined up like pins in an alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display with the aurora borealis...
...Neis F. S. Ferre, professor of Philosophical Theology at Vanderbilt, will begin a four-day lecture series tonight on the topic, "Meaning Confronts Chaos," at 7:30 p.m., in the New Lecture Hall. The remaining three lectures will be given in Memorial Church. Discussions in the Houses will follow the speeches...