Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...
...airlines had fought him because of his encouragement of small airline operators (many of them ex-Air Force pilots) in their development of air cargo service on unscheduled lines (about 80% of all U.S. air freight is handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis' signature, the President's Air Safety Board put the onus of safety on the airlines, recommended that each employ a full-time safety director...
Promising Trial. Last summer the flying tankers, rising from a field in the Azores, refueled 21 nonstop flights from London to Bermuda. Every contact went smoothly. If the North Atlantic trials show the same excellent performance, Sir Alan predicts that many airlines will adopt his system...
...association endorsed aid to Europe, but with the prohibitive condition that the U.S. insist that foreign nations, in effect, adopt an uncontrolled, free-enterprise system before they...
Hale urged that other Houses adopt similar plans. He remarked that since both College officials and most Winthrop men have approved the changes, an extension, of the program to every College dining hall could easily result in important food savings...