Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that time an increasing number of corrected books have seeped back into the hands of students. Most full year courses now return their midyear examinations, since students may improve in the spring by a knowledge of their mistakes and since the non-final grades will stimulate no very heated controversies...
...rate. Though industrial production will not equal igss's 11 % jump, it is expected to edge up. The Government's budget, unbalanced in 1955, may still not balance in fiscal 1956, although the Administration hopes to turn in a surplus, with the possibility of tax cuts by midyear. What may throw it off is current military spending, slated for a $500 million rise to $34.5 billion, then another $1 billion rise in fiscal 1957. For years, U.S. defense chiefs worried that the nation might not be able-or willing-to carry the necessary burden. But as the gross...
Cadillac's biggest news was the Eldorado Brougham, which will come out in midyear as the answer to Ford Motor Co.'s $10,000 Continental. The low (54-in.), four-passenger Brougham will have pivoting seats (for easier entry), a 3O5-h.p. engine and an $8,500 price tag. Cadillac has no worries about its '55 inventory. At the latest count, dealers had an average of only 1.4 unsold '55 models-and a total of 64,000 unfilled orders for '56 models...
Despite the credit brakes, a new construction record is already in prospect for 1955. F. W. Dodge's midyear construction review reported a 30% increase in all classes of building contracts to a total of nearly $12 billion during the first six months, with no sign of a letup in sight...
...morning. Crew may obtain a chart of the West Indies by calling at Widener 417." To the crew concerned, the meaning of the notice was abundantly clear. It was simply Samuel Eliot Morison's salty way of telling his students the time and place of their midyear exam...