Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time has come to conduct a broad national inquiry into the nature, performance and adequacy of our financial system." Thus, in his State of the Union message last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approved an increasingly debated project: a sweeping study of the nation's complex financial system-something along the lines of the Aldrich inquiries of 1908, which led to the formation of the Federal Reserve System...
...Ferrer makes his pitch at a meeting of the network's top brass, throwing them a soft sell, very sincere, about how he would conduct the full hour, coast-to-coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes, the boss breaks...
International police and State Department officials are conducting a search for Arthur Clausen Pike '60, who was reported missing on January 15th. He is thought to be in the West Indies, where he planned to conduct a meteorological study...
...believe that a code of conduct between nations is in itself important. In time, the existence of this code does begin to affect public opinion and public opinion in its turn has an influence upon the behaviour of governments...
...formula. At week's end the baby (whose father is a 400-lb., 11-year-old gorilla named Baron) weighed in at 4½ lbs., and was given a fair chance to survive if she weathered the first few days. If she lives, the happy zoo officials will conduct a city-wide contest to choose a name...