Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...through the valley of the winding Musselshell River. It uses the tracks of a forgotten railroad that laconic Westerners called the Jawbone Line, because it was built on promises. It goes through Roundup, Ringling, Three Forks (where the Missouri begins) and just before Butte, 5,755 feet above sea level, it crosses the Continental Divide...
...Nation's Plant is Underbuilt. . . . Even when operating at its highest level of production, our industrial plant was not producing enough goods and services to provide a uniformly high standard of living for 130,000,000 Americans...
...help compensate for this rise, badly-needed wage increases of from 5% to 10% were enforced throughout Italian industry last March and a further wage rise is again needed to keep the Italian worker even on the bare subsistence level...
Since 1926, the trend of U. S. railroad passenger revenues (11% of total revenues) has been down. For a decade the Eastern roads made little attempt to stop it. Fares remained at the 3.6?-per-mile level set in pre-bus, pre-depression days...
...allow "clearly understaffed" Departments to recommend men for promotion to "frozen" associate professorships. This meant that if the President kept good faith, and the Departments pushed their claims, some of the ten assistant professors could be promoted to permanency even though they might never rise higher than the level of associate professor. Now the grapevine has it that two of the forgotten ten, one in. English and one in Government, have been recommended for promotion to permanent tenure. And confirmation by the Corporation and Board of Overseers seems a sure bet. This is fine. But in the fog of secrecy...