Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT: "The New Deal legislation of the thirties helped to provide a 'built-in' consumer demand that business could then work to satisfy . . . I hope this quarter-century will see a frank recognition that every new frontier in American progress has been, and will always be, opened up by the joint enterprise of business and government...
...undergraduate level, students rarely get an opportunity to participate in advanced research. But the applied learning of graduate students and faculty members has built up a research program which has made many important contributions to the nation's scientific progress...
Gussner spoke before the college chapter of the FOR, a national pacifist organization. He attacked what he called the present American viewpoint that the "state is God." "The pacifists believe that social structures should be built up around human values and not around violence and fear," Gussner said...
What the critics and public alike were cheering about was not so clear. Both of Buffet's shows last week were built around the single theme, "The Circus." The pictures are all the same unmixed Buffet of morbid subject and individualistic craftsmanship: a rapid, flat, angular style carried out in monotonous grey tones accentuated with blue, dull olive and bilious yellow. The canvases displayed shabby acrobats, gaunt and ugly women performers, emaciated jugglers and grim freaks (see cut). Curiously, all the figures had the same sad features-Buffet...
...coffee caterers are Boston's William McConnell and Berton Steir, who wanted to get into a new business that would be depression-proof. In 1950 they bought one automatic coffee machine and started to serve coffee in a downtown Boston office. Since then, McConnell and Steir have built a $2,000,000-a-year business, own a fleet of trucks, 300 coin-operated coffee dispensers, 30 banks of food-vending machines, and a catering service that sells coffee by the jug to more than 100 offices and industrial plants...