Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Wolfson, according to a Ward official, had "approached" Avery. The rumor around Ward's was that Isaac Wolfson offered to buy a big chunk of Ward's stock if he could have a voice in management and use Ward's stores to sell the products of his furniture and clothing factories. Avery would stay on as chairman...
...costs could be paid back." If India and Pakistan, for example, put up counterpart funds to match the $170 million of U.S. aid allocated to them in the past three years, "there might be built six . . . atomic-power plants of 600,000 kw. capacity," enough to add a big chunk to India's electric power production...
CHRYSLER, which lost a big chunk of its defense business when General Motors took over as sole supplier of Patton M48 medium tanks last year, will soon be back in medium-tank production. By underbidding G.M., Chrysler won a new $160,600,000 Army contract for 1,800 Pattons to be produced at its Newark, Del. plant, has also landed a $22 million contract for experimental work on the Army's secret "Redstone" ground-to-ground guided missile...
...rock one day near a crumbling ridge when he noticed that his Scintillometer was not registering properly. He thought it was out of order. But when he walked away from the rock the needle moved again. Then the light dawned. Says he: "I was sitting on a solid chunk of uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked out a claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft...
...seemed to be a victory for everybody. Iran regained its main source of revenue; Britain salvaged a handsome reward from what once seemed a total loss; the U.S. found itself participating for the first time in one of the world's richest oilfields. More than that, a strategic chunk of the globe's surface was made safer from Communist penetration. Last week, in the cool garden of Elah-yeh Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula...