Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change of Plan. To beef up the original plan of sharing capitalization and profits fifty-fifty with small borrowers, Graham has switched to 50% from an entrepreneur, 25% from a wealthy Indian (both in rupees) and 25% in dollars from Private Enterprises Inc. On the committee of Indian bankers and businessmen who screen the loans, this has the effect of more help to enterprises in which they have a chief interest. But bigger deals will persuade more big businessmen to put up more matching rupees, get them in on the crusade...
...move apparently was part of a compromise solution that would allow military men to continue plans to beef up West Europe's strength with ballistic missiles...
...post-Sputnik drive to meet the challenge of the Soviet Union's massive educational drive, the Houston school board asked the University of Houston and Rice Institute to help beef up the city's science teaching; Chicago upped the required academic courses for high school students from six to ten; Seattle plans advanced work for bright seventh graders; Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey called for a 5½-day school week and a ten-month year. But from M.I.T. last week came evidence that the Soviet school system has faults of its own. For a report on the flaws...
Third Day. The President awakened at 7:40 a.m., got up, showered, shaved himself, breakfasted on half a grapefruit, creamed chipped beef, toast and honey and Sanka. Then he set about bouncing back with a vigor that astonished his staff. In pajamas, beige dressing gown and slippers, he padded about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams...
...patients improved after injections of an extract from the pineal glands of cattle. Trouble was that after a few days the patients stopped responding to the treatment and soon relapsed into their former state. Harvard University's Dr. Mark D. Altschule guessed that this was because of big beef protein molecules in the extract. He set himself the job of isolating the potent fraction in the pineal glands from this kind of protein...