Word: blueprinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully aware. (Watkinson also tried to soothe British egos by stating that BOAC's U.S. jets will use homemade Rolls-Royce engines installed in the Boeing air frames, thus save $25 million in dollars...
...republic, the Commonwealth of Virginia has regarded itself as the leader of the South. But never has it seemed more determined to exercise that leadership than in the fight against integration. Last week Governor Thomas Stanley signed a series of bills that gives the South the most elaborate blueprint yet conceived for getting around the U.S. Supreme Court...
Ellington's father was first a butler, then a caterer, and eventually a blueprint technician, and he provided well for his family. Duke had art lessons, at which he did extremely well, and piano lessons, which he never mastered. He felt they cramped his style. He worked in a soda fountain after school, and spent his hours at home working out his own method of playing the piano. By the time he was 14, he had started a piece called Soda Fountain Rag, and he played it so many different ways that people thought it was several compositions...
...Delegate Harold Stassen and his government the Anglo-French scheme appeared to overlook the fact that it would be far more useful to start even a limited measure of actual disarmament than to get general agreement on a Utopian overall blueprint. Emphasizing this, Stassen a fortnight ago proposed that the subcommittee agree at once on a series of small but eminently practical "confidence-building" steps toward disarmament, including the opening by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. of experimental disarmament inspection zones (TIME, April 2). Last week he made another specific proposal: international control centers to which all major powers would...
...nation's 6,000,000 whites will be swamped in a sea of 25 million blacks. Last week, after five years' study, a government-appointed commission headed by Pretoria University's Professor F. R. Tomlinson, a Cornell graduate with a U.S. wife, brought forth a blueprint for total apartheid (apartness...