Word: year
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost unnoticed, the Russians have become major challengers in the international competition for airplane records, earlier this year snatched both the altitude and speed records from the U.S. Galled by such impudence, the U.S. Air Force last week organized a major assault on both Russian-held records...
Died. Andrés Martinez Trueba, 75, President of Uruguay who voluntarily stepped down in his second year (1952) of office to permit the introduction of a government by council, patterned after Switzerland's, with a rotating chairmanship, and was elected first chairman; in Montevideo, Uruguay...
...American conception of a modern, modified capitalism, in which benefits are shared by all, had been wholeheartedly adopted by the Old World, which once restricted the benefits to a comparative few. Anyone with eyes to see could find the symbols of this capitalism in 1959. It was a year when...
...economic news of 1959 was that, in a year when the U.S. reached new heights of prosperity, the fruits of high production and resourceful salesmanship were at long last shared and enjoyed by a multitude of other nations...
Throughout the year, the full extent of the free world's progress was often clouded by worry over the economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the freeing of currencies from tight controls, and in the fact that the "economy of abundance," once a U.S. phrase and fact, was visible in other lands...