Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...
...diabetes, Landlord Worthing was taken to a hospital, told that one of his legs must be amputated. As he lay waiting for the operation, he looked back over a life that had led from college to a job as signal design engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, then to real estate dealings in white-tenanted property, and finally, after a severe Depression loss, into Negro rentals. Then Evan Edward Worthing called his lawyer to the hospital, explained the terms of a will he wanted drawn. Eleven months later, in December 1951. he died. In his principal bequest, he gave...
...difficult, sophisticated way to fly a jet plane off a short runway or no runway at all is to design it so it can stand on its tail like the Ryan Vertijet and zoom directly upward. The simple, brute-force way is to blast it into the air with rocket power. Last week the Air Force announced that the "zero-length" launch, done in the past with less advanced airplanes, has been accomplished with North American's supersonic F-100D fighter...
...workers are counted, productivity increased at an annual rate of 3.7% since 1947; if all workers are counted, the gain drops to 2.9%. Actually, says Wernick, the reverse may be true, since technical experts often make possible productivity increases. Moreover, how can industry measure the work of scientists who design a new machine or a new product that does not show up in the output figures for months...
...took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h. (top speed: 600 m.p.h.). Said President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "It looked standard. Like it's going to look in every airport in the world every day." Douglas spent $250 million to design and tool up for its jet, has orders from 17 airlines for 138 planes. It expects to deliver the first in mid-1959. But even with $700 million in orders, the company is still far from breaking even, will be looking for additional sales for some time to come...