Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
Were civil defense to receive as much attention as the threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...
...persuaded NIH to invest in high-school students is Robert Lee Silber, 29-year-old head of the science department at Central. Silber has his own special brand of mild-mannered determination, e.g., to work his way through Evansville College, he scrubbed floors in a slaughterhouse. He hit on his present project in the summer of 1956, when he did not have time to finish some research work on amino acids at NIH before school reopened. Encouraged by NIH biochemist Filadelfo Irreverre, Silber asked NIH for a grant to carry on the work with his students back at Central...
King's herds grew until his Running W brand was known on every cattle trail in the West. More important, perhaps, the land he gobbled up was always legally acquired. He had a talent for picking lawyers. The best of that fine crew was one Robert Justus Kleberg, a young attorney who beat the captain in a lawsuit, was promptly hired by King, and later married the boss' daughter...
...Branding & Broiling. Haunting the obsolete stockyards in his tweedy British jackets and Bedford britches, Billy soon gave the place a $2,000,000 face lifting, put in modern truck ramps, insisted to cattlemen that Chicago, not Omaha, was cow butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint...