Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sued both Senator McCarran and the casino operators for conspiring to put him out of business, and got a fat $86,000 settlement out of court. Tom Mechling is making noises like a man who wants to run for governor of Nevada next year, and he has a core of political strength among the newcomers in the trailer camps and bungalows of Las Vegas and Reno...
...engines often reach temperatures3,700° Fahrenheit at the core of their blast hot enough to burn ordinary steel like paper. The planes themselves are approaching speeds at which aluminum aircraft skins would lose their strength, then melt. Nor is heat the only problem. Building of the first atomic reactors disclosed the fact that most metals absorb or "eat up" the atomic neutrons needed to provide the fission and motive power...
Skills & Shortfalls. Engine Charlie Wilson was bringing to Washington precisely what Dwight Eisenhower had asked for: the core of the philosophy of U.S. business, to be adapted to management of "the largest business in the world." It was not a saintly code, but it did combine the world's greatest managerial skill with patriotism, unpretentiousness, and the kind of dogged self-confidence necessary to practical achievement. But, in walking with the firm tread of a successful industrialist, Charlie Wilson exposed an Achilles' heel which Eisenhower had hardly bargained for: Wilson did not understand the motives or workings...
...more than a year, the Chinese Communists have been using a shrewd technique to extort foreign exchange from the hard core of remaining companies, and provide jobs for some 5,000 Chinese employees. Shanghai's Ewo (translation: Happy Harmony) Breweries Ltd., for instance, once as famed in the Far East as Schlitz in Milwaukee, is an economic hostage. Ewo survived for a time under the Communists. But last year the Reds boosted the prices that Ewo had to pay for raw materials, then ruled that all its production must be sold through a state monopoly at a price...
Harvard chose to risk the financial lose, seeking to minimize it by such palliatives as scheduling weak, obscure opponents, and hoping for athletic plant endowment. The expedients have not been effective, for the schedule's core has necessarily remained a number of Ivy League colleges which, like Yale, talked much about deemphasis while doing the opposite, and the endowment has been meager. So long as this situation continues, Harvard's alternatives become buying teams versus dropping the sport altogether...