Word: conformable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration did not have time for a basic revision of the Truman defense budget. It made a few billion in cuts, mostly in the Air Force. These did not conform to any new general political-economic-military plan. Rather they were a result of finding specific soft spots in the Truman budget. Some of these cuts, for instance, were based on the assertion of Secretary Wilson that there was no use budgeting for planes that would not be produced in the budget period...
...Manhattan's builders have put up office buildings with 7,300,000 sq. ft. of new space, enough to cover 152 football fields. In the rush (one building, 99 Park Avenue, took just 6½ days for the aluminum outside walls), architecture has taken a back seat. To conform to zoning restrictions, most of the buildings rise in a series of recessed blocks, like Babylonian ziggurats and great wedding cakes. A few, like the U.N.'s stone and glass sandwich and Lever House's glass slab, have broken the pattern. But in midtown Manhattan, the wedding cake...
Under the agreement of 1900, signed by Britain and Mutesa's crocodile-worshiping father, the Kabaka is required to "conform . . . and cooperate loyally with Her Majesty's Government." But since last summer, the Baganda have been demanding 1) a definite date for Buganda independence. 2) the transfer of Buganda affairs from the British Colonial Office to the Foreign Office. This would have meant splitting the Uganda protectorate into two unworkable enclaves-one for the proud Baganda. another for the 4,000,000 less-advanced tribesmen. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton turned down both requests, but when he ordered...
...avowed Marxist. But he swears that he is loyal to the government and has never advocated the use of force in carrying out the social reforms he wants. He regards his case as the beginning of an attack against the teaching profession that has forced his colleagues to conform and be silent...
Stripes & Tops. In those days, everyone wanted striped bathing suits. Jantzen helped to develop a machine that cut the cost of knitting stripes from 60? to a penny a suit. To cut distribution costs, the company used no middlemen. And to conform with local mores, Jantzen's men's suits always came with detachable tops. President Zehntbauer established mills and licensed plants around the world to make his suits, smartly got his swim suits promoted far & wide by celebrities and in aquatic shows...