Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because they are his most powerful political supporters, Nuri has blocked all moves to curb the tribal sheiks' hold on their land. "Time will break up the big estates," he says. "We don't want to force socialism down peoples' throats...
...Sound. Although they are the most polished neo-barbershop group going, none of the Hi-Lo's has had much professional training. Bass Puerling and Baritone Bob Strasen grew up together in Milwaukee, went to Los Angeles looking for a break in show business. There they teamed up with Tenors Burroughs and Bob Morse, who were appearing with a local band. They started practicing five hours a day, soon decided that they were getting good enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally...
...both have the same faculty, both use more or less the same libraries and laboratories. Any program providing for a marked expansion of one would probably also permit a parallel expansion in the other. But Dean Elder and many others would oppose any increase in graduate enrollment that would break sharply the present proportion of size between the GSAS and Harvard College. If the College is able to expand 15 to 20 per cent, the graduate school could probably grow a similar amount, but no more...
...refusing to say whether the White House influenced him in giving Idaho Power what amounts to an interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did not need the tax break. While Seaton conceded that Gray's action was legally correct, "I reiterate that I did recommend against issuance of the certificates and would do so again...
...plant meals can be an expensive proposition. Monsanto Chemical Co., which has had a cafeteria for 28 years, manages to break even. But most other company-run programs are in the red, Reynolds Metals absorbs a big part of the food costs annually for 1,100 Louisville workers. Thompson Products lost $61,000 last year serving employees 7,000 meals daily; Ford figures the loss at around 8? per customer to feed 3,000 workers at the Dearborn main headquarters. Part of the reason for the loss is that industrial firms must pay plant union wages and fringe benefits, which...