Word: aime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aim from the beginning," says Walter Dornberger, now technical assistant to the president of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, "was to reach infinite space." But if Wernher von Braun had any notions about the German army's spending millions to achieve his dream of space exploration, they were quickly dispelled. Germany wanted weapons, period. The Budget Bureau would not even permit Kummersdorf to buy office equipment, and Von Braun learned early in the game the techniques of flimflamming the bureaucrats, e.g., it was a rare budget official who realized that Kummersdorf's request for funds to buy an "appliance...
...seemed to be on the defensive. "We are representing another side of one of the greatest personalities of our time," said Laurence Sickman, director of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. "Frankly, we welcomed the opportunity." Detroit Institute of Arts Director Edgar P. Richardson was equally pleased, said, "Our aim is to give the people a chance to observe the pageant of arts in our time, and certainly this is part of that pageant...
...asserts that the moral aim of capitalism is not toil but leisure (leisure here defined not as play but as the "liberal work" of civilization). Real capitalism should bring not only full employment but full enjoyment by men "of the leisure work that machine-produced wealth can make possible...
Stomma appealed to Wladyslaw Gomulka's ruling Communists "to resurrect the energies of the nation" by trusting it with a "margin of freedom." To restore the "aim of life and joy in living" that might allay the "bitterness, nihilism, hooliganism and drunkenness" in the land, said Stomma, "confidence must be mutual-of people in authorities, but even more so of the authorities in the people. Only in this way can Polish society be united...
...agriculture; it was started in the canning industry years ago. But its rapid spread in recent years to other sections of the farm economy has caused some enthusiasts to feel that it may go a long way toward solving the farm problem, since its aim is to increase the income of farmers by cutting their costs, improving their products and widening the market by lowering prices to the housewife. Under the contract, the packing company makes a deal with a farmer to buy all his hogs at a set premium (as much as 50? per cwt.) over the delivery...