Word: goings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...David MacConnell became associate dean of Stanford University's School of Education back in 1947, he began to have callers from the school systems of overcrowded California towns. Most of them were superintendents who "thought they needed more schools or additions but didn't know how to go about getting them. I was struck," says MacConnell, "by how lost some of them seemed...
...alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech, let's go...
...Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey (rhymes with ivy) and Clyde Lovellette, the Kansas skyscraper (6 ft. 9 in.) who set a Big Seven record of 545 points in 25 games last year. Before the game Rupp warned reporters: "As Spivey goes, we go." Spivey went beautifully...
...Korea, were still selling below parity. Oranges on Nov. 15 (when parity was last computed) brought the grower an average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could...
What Washington was finally realizing was that the nation is on an inflationary merry-go-round that can't be stopped under the present law. As food rises, the cost of living rises. Since a million non-farm workers have wage rates tied directly to the cost-of-living index, they automatically get wage increases as the cost of living goes up. That, in turn, boosts the cost of manufactured goods, and is bound in time to force up even mandatory ceilings, if the companies are to remain in business. But when manufactured goods go up, parity goes...