Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitable Changed? To assure victory, liberal leaders already are mustering their troops. Last week Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey were hard at work rounding up G.O.P. votes for the rules change. And from Democrats Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Paul Douglas of Illinois went a joint letter to 13 newly elected Democratic Senators. Rule XXII, said the letter, deprives newcomers of "the right to participate in making the rules under which they must operate." Damning the possible party consequences, the letter added: "No plea for an illusory 'party unity' which surrenders...
...CLIFFORD WORTHING...
...evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric J-79 jet engine, the company called on Elox. They worked out a machine, an eight-headed monster that can quickly and automatically drill dozens of combinations of holes. Said Engineer Clifford B. Smith of Portland Copper & Tank: "Elox's limits are only the limits of an engineer's imagination...
Rare Youth. Work lapsed for 47 years. In 1932 Clifford Kenyon Shipton, a young Harvardman then teaching history at Brown, was hired to take over, has been at it ever since. At first he estimated that he could bring the biographies up to the class of 1800 in his lifetime, then revised his hopes downward to the classes of the Revolution. Now, at 55, he figures to hymn the sons of Harvard through 1765, the year of the Stamp Act. Progress so far: seven more volumes and part of the eighth, extending Sibley's sketches to the class...
...Steel, which has kept mum about whether it will raise prices to meet automatic July 1 wage hikes (estimated to cost steel firms 20? an hour), last week gave a hint of its intentions. Said Big Steel President Clifford F. Hood: "While costs are a major factor in any price determination, any adjustment of sales prices can only be made in the light of all known commercial and economic factors. The only point we have reached to date is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation clarifies itself...