Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine tools jumped 22% in October, to $61 million. This is important for the whole economy because manufacturers of all kinds usually step up their ordering of tools when they plan to boost output in the coming months. Toolmakers reported that orders were coming in from companies in every branch of business. "While the increase isn't startlingly high," says a top Administration economist, "purchases of machinery can be the trigger to a new advance in capital spending." If so, it would mean that the Kennedy Administration's grant of tax credits for plant modernization and speeded...
Gill was born in Long Branch, N.J. He is married and has three sons...
...arrests were made under a sweeping Sabotage Act steamrollered through a pliant Parliament last spring. Vowing to "tear out Communism here root and branch," Vorster, a wartime Nazi sympathizer, moved against a variety of the government's most outspoken critics. Some were ranking Reds before South Africa banned the Communist Party in 1950; some were vociferous left-wingers. Others were simply liberals, but that makes little difference to Vorster, who considers liberalism "the forerunner of Communism...
...sixth-place St. Louis Cardinals might be in need of new ideas, but hardly the kind served up by newly hired Consultant Branch Rickey, 80. The old Mahatma's idea-to retire Stan ("The Man") Musial, 41-produced such a roar that Club President August A. Busch Jr., 63, felt compelled to soothe the outraged fans. With a .330 batting average last season, Stan will stay as long as he likes, said Brewer Busch, and when he wants to quit he has a job as a Cardinal vice president. In St. Petersburg. Fla., sharpening up young hitters, Stan...
...theorems are found in a queer branch of top mathematics called "topology." A French mathematician, Jordan, gave the fundamental theorem of this study: every simple curve has an inside and an outside. That is, ever simple curve divides the plane into two regions, one inside the curve, and one outside...