Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...said that until such action was taken on the state and local level, there was no reason for the citizens of such states as Colorado, Utah and Kansas to subsidize the well-to-do residents of the eastern commuter areas. Even though my railroad would benefit by these subsidies, I would be the last citizen in the land to recommend inequitable treatment for the nation's taxpayers...
...minimum-wage increase from $1 an hour to $1.25, with coverage extended to several million additional workers. This is a Democratic must designed to soothe labor leaders who are angry about Democratic support for last year's labor bill. The Administration considers the $1.25 level inflationary...
Modest Canada would blush to have invented Red China's grandiose motto "Great Leap Forward"-but in the past decade Canada has leaped. High in resources and low in population. Canada has taken giant strides toward a level of prosperity that only the U.S. surpasses; while the U.S.'s gross national product has climbed 50% since 1950, Canada's has jumped 90%-an advance in which U.S. investment dollars played a dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME...
Life has existed on earth for about one billion years. Gold points out. It began as very simple forms of microscopic size, has developed slowly until only now is it reaching a level of physical development and technological competence that will allow descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. Certainly within the next few hundred years, he holds, man will be visiting planets of other solar systems. "Most of these planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that they...
...index rose only 0.1%, but that was still enough to edge it to an alltime high of 125.6% of the 1947-49 average. But Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague predicted that during the early months of 1960 the index would show little change from the November 1959 level...