Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parakeet's Perch. His day begins at 5 a.m. in his three-room suite in the Mayflower hotel, where he has lived since 1926, the year after it was built (recalls Mrs. George: "I'd been watching the building go up, and one day I said, 'Mr. George, I don't know where you're going to live, but I'm going to live right there' "). He reads the morning papers, shaves (sometimes with a parakeet named Bobbie perched atop his head eying the lather hungrily), breakfasts on grapefruit and coffee with...
...system, by which only three of the nine directors were elected each year, is unconstitutional. Thus the highest court in the state of Illinois upheld a lower court decision (TIME, Feb. 14) that all nine Ward directors must be elected each year, and wrecked Chairman Sewell Avery's built-in majority (i.e., six directors with unexpired terms) on the company's board of directors. The staggered-director system overturned by the court violated the Illinois Corporation Act section on cumulative voting, i.e., a stockholder may cast one vote for each member of the board of directors or concentrate...
...reactor being built by Westinghouse at Shippingport, Pa. will be fueled by a ten-ton core of uranium. Larger reactors of current design may use as much as 200 tons, which must be replaced every few years...
...runs through her midsection. After smiling at the two segments, he covers the gap with a cloth, and then smiles as the girl walks off the stage in one piece. His other tricks include dancing handkerchiefs, floating lightbulbs, and the appearance of an assistant in a glass box built on stage...
Viggo Bertelsen, Larry Coolidge, and George Krumbhaar are the three veterans around whom Wilde has built his crew. Coolidge, who rowed in a four at Groton, will be in the number three seat. Krumbhaar follows Coolidge at four, and pulled on the first boat at Middlesex for three years...