Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delay because the term had already begun. The community used the year to good advantage. There were no formal meetings, sermons, speeches or editorials, but community leaders set up an informal living-room and street-corner campaign to tell the youngsters matter-of-factly that September would bring integration and they should make the best...
...only mimeographed notes as receipts to investors. His enterprise had no legal existence, was known simply by the title of "Bankers Anonymous." (In the Italian business vocabulary, "anonymous" means "unincorporated".) Two winters ago, Giuffrè formed a limited company called ACOFI to engage in "industrial and commercial activities ... to bring about a new social order in Italy firmly based on the teachings of the church." Among his partners: Dr. Enrico Vinci, president of Italy's National Catholic Action Youth Movement and the Catholic Action's regional vice president in Romagna...
What saved the crops was the fact that many farmers wisely retired their dustiest fields to fallow. On their remaining acres, they used new chemical weed killers, planted drought-resistant strains whose roots went down 5 ft. to bring up moisture. By last week the victory was in sight: not only was the yield per acre good, but the wheat itself was rich in protein and sure to command top prices on world markets...
Since Whitney has the kind of money that may bring the Trib back to its thriving, prewar heyday, the sale cheered the paper's 1,900 staffers. They have watched gloomily as the Herald Tribune, once a formidable rival of the Times, cut coverage, settled into sixth place in circulation among Manhattan's seven major dailies. Under eager Brownie, who replaced brother Whitelaw as editor and chief executive officer in a 1955 family power squabble, the Trib seemed to ease up on solid reporting and sound writing as it went after circulation with frothy features and tabloid-style...
...coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all their passengers in case of emergency. Manufacturers have installed "automatic presentation" systems in all jets, so that the pilot can make each passenger's mask pop out of an overhead compartment by pressing a button. All the passenger has to do is hold the rubber cup over his nose...