Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke the best English, and I was the most expendable.") The U.S. Army was delighted to accept that invitation and, in a project known as Operation Paperclip, selected Von Braun and 120 of his best team members to go to the U.S. under contract with the Army to build rockets...
...barnstorming through the hinterlands of Negro baseball. He never got over the fact that he was a grown man being paid to play a boy's game. "You know, I'll play for nothing if I have to," he once told a startled Dodger official during a contract session. "You can write in the numbers yourself...
...would have settled for less," said the St. Louis Cardinals' First Baseman Stan Musial, 37, as he signed a $100,000 contract for his 17th season in the majors. National League batting champ for the seventh time, Stan the Man has long since earned his new honor of being the highest-paid player in National League history...
...Britons, domestic nu clear energy will total 6 million kw., v. only 1.6 million for the U.S. The British have also landed a contract for a $72 million, 200,000-kw. power plant in Italy, expect to sew up at least five other foreign contracts totaling about $500 million by the end of 1958. Target for 1967: the bulk of the business from Europe's six-nation Euratom combine, whose purpose is to build a common nuclear power grid of 15 million kw. Russia is reportedly building a 150,000-kw. plant for Czechoslovakia, a 100,000-kw. plant...
...contrast, U.S. manufacturers have only eight power-plant contracts around the world, most of them small. In addition to costs, AEC tightly restricts sales of enriched uranium, needed for U.S.-designed plants, refuses to guarantee foreign nations all they need; Britain, on the other hand, gives a lifetime fuel guarantee with each contract. Still another complaint is insurance. British underwriters have banded together to form the British Insurance (Atomic Energy) Committee to write a plan for insuring foreign nuclear plants. The U.S., while it has finally developed a joint Government-private insurance program for domestic reactors, has no plan...