Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Columbia President Eisenhower, speaking in Manhattan, pulled the cord and fired the shot that made Washington sit up. "America has already disarmed," he said, "to the extent, in some directions even beyond the extent, that I, with deep concern for her present safety, could possibly advise, until we have certain knowledge that all nations, in concerted action, are doing likewise...
...umbilical cord connecting these two airplanes is a refueling device recently developed by Boeing Airplane Co. Most refueling of airplanes from flying "tankers" has been done by a flexible hose which the airplane must catch and attach. Because the old system has many disadvantages, Boeing switched to this rigid, tubular "boom" that swings below the tail of the tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom...
United World Federalists, boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit...
Eleaza Williams 1L, Cord Meyer, Jr. Junior Follow and former president of the Federalists, and Dean Emeritus Holmes of the Graduate School of Education also appeared in favor of the resolution, which has already been passed in six states...
...Goodyear plant would be healthy for the Benelux economy, giving a new source of employment. And local revenues would increase still further when Goodyear's plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself. Last fall she agreed to sell...