Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain's history, impersonating the Roman Consul Galba, El Cid or Columbus...
...reaching streamlining of customs procedures to speed the flow of imports. Said the report: "Many goods take longer to pass through customs than it took Columbus to discover America...
...Columbus, Ohio...
Self-Control. In Columbus, Ohio, former Ohio Highway Director Hal Sours was trapped by a radar speeding device he had sold to the city in 1949, fined...
...boosting appliances to 30% of his overall sales. To do that, he spends millions on improvements. Westinghouse engineers experimented for ten years and spent $790,000 before they got a Frost-Free refrigerator that worked; the first on the market, it enabled Westinghouse to grab bigger sales. In Columbus, Ohio, Westinghouse will shortly open a new refrigerator plant bigger than its huge appliance center at Mansfield, Ohio. Just to get the dealers ready for the 1953 line, Price spent $1,500,000 for a musical to acquaint dealers in 38 cities with "The Greatest Appliance Show on Earth...