Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militancy on the Negro-school question, it is not Mrs. Hicks herself who stands in the way of the Negro. Most of white Boston is quite content with the neighborhoods. When Mrs. Hicks ran for a second term on the school committee in 1963, she got a bigger vote than the mayor...
HYDRODYNAMICS Busy as they are sending a man to the fringes of space and the to bottom of the sea, routing disease and building bigger and better nuclear bombs. 20th centry scientists still find time for smaller, more mundane problems. One of the smallest: Which way does the water spin when it swirls down the bathtub drain...
...close to two decades. Last year, finally the packers made a dramatic breakthrough: profits rose to $166 million, 46 million more than in 1963. The 1964 federal tax cut was partly responsible, but the convention of the American Meat Institute in Manhattan last week displayed an even bigger reason: some new machines that can pack profits as well as meat...
Making railroads pay has long been one of the toughest challenges a U.S. businessman can face. Last week two executives who have been uncommonly successful in meeting that challenge moved on to new and bigger jobs. Louis W. Menk, 47, will leave the $100,000-a-year presidency and board chairman ship of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. to take over as president and chief executive of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., succeeding Harry C. Murphy, who is retiring at 73. Jack E. Gilliland, 56, who has been a vice president of the Frisco since 1958, will...
...other categories of business in 136 countries-by thumbing through a new kind of directory called the International Yellow Pages. Conceived by Robert A. Nellson, 50, a Rochester, N.Y., advertising executive, International Yellow Pages has gone through two editions since it was first published in 1963. A new and bigger third edition is now being prepared; it will contain 540,000 listings (including country, town, street address and telephone number), go to 36,000 users around the world...