Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symbol of Confidence. Acting unilaterally and with a certain haste (to strengthen Chancellor Adenauer's position), the U.S. sent High Commissioner James B. Conant to deposit the instrument of U.S. ratification of the West European treaties in Bonn, ahead of the British and French, instead of together as originally planned. Conant signed the protocols with Adenauer, while a crowd of U.S. and German dignitaries and newsmen looked on. Said Der Alte: "I value this as a symbol of confidence and friendship. It obligates us to carry on and deepen our mutual work...
...suggestion for extension of the principle is the Northeastern Regional Library. With the cooperation of Ivy Universities, MIT, and New York Public Library a program similar to the Deposit library could effect vast economies both by eliminating duplication and providing cheap storage for large sections of University collections...
BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more...
Blue, White, or Both. Such niceties are reflected in the voting system. Votes are taken by depositing in an urn cards bearing the Deputy's name-white for yes, blue for no, both cards for abstention. But a Deputy does not have to be present to vote, and even if he is, he customarily lets his party leader deposit his vote. By judiciously mixing "yeas," "nays" and "abstains," a party leader can calculate just what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking...
...their biggest rival, the huge Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., the world's biggest sulphur producer. Texas' well in Mexico was its first find after four discouraging years of drilling at a cost of $6,000,000, and even then it was not a large deposit. Says Bill Brady with a shrug: "You work like hell to find it. If you don't, you don't. [We had] the luck of the Irish...