Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second complaint, on a purely physical level, was that G. S. was crowding the college not only out of its classrooms and administrative buildings, but also out of its dormitories and social centers...
...Burden Bearers. Clay's was a planning and coordinating job. Wilkinson was the commission's operating head. As a first step they enlisted 109 county and city directors of civilian defense to work beyond and below the state level. The enormous task of organizing the defenses of New York City fell to Arthur W. Wailander, onetime police commissioner, now on leave from a job with a utility company. On Wallander and his staff would fall the burden of trying to pick up the shattered pieces of humanity, industry and communications while aid, directed by Clay's state...
...tanks, 25,000 pieces of artillery and 40,000 super-bazookas and recoilless rifles. This would be merely a part of a general program which would run between $35 billion and $40 billion annually for the next three years and then would taper off to a maintenance level of about $25 billion a year. But since then the Pentagon planners have been raising their goals almost every week; the talk in Washington last week was of a possible defense budget topping $50 billion a year-or more than one-fifth of the nation's total output...
Commerce Department figures still showed that the U.S. had a slim balance of exports over imports. In July, said Commerce, the U.S.'s favorable balance of trade tipped the scales at a mere $63 million, the lowest level in nine years. Actually, if such unpaid-for exports as Marshall Plan goods were deducted from the total, the U.S. has had an unfavorable balance of trade totaling more than $1 billion since the first of the year. In short, the U.S. was finally reaching the point where trade was becoming something like a two-way street again-a healthy thing...
...seminar program, still in the planning stage, is expected to go into operation in November. Members of the University faculty will conduct courses on an advanced level for students who have or haven't gone to college but who prove themselves capable of handling the work...