Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dumaine. who had a simple method of cutting costs: he sacked the bulk of top-salaried employees -which left the New Haven with a chronic shortage of competent executives. In 1954, after a debilitating proxy war, rambunctious Patrick B. McGinnis came in as president; he spent millions to develop futuristic trains and passed out lavish dividends on New Haven preferred stock. When McGinnis departed for the Boston & Maine, he left to his successor and onetime ally, George Alpert, a long-term debt of $200 million...
...there are compensations. Some tourists develop into night owls, fascinated to find shops, bars and coffee shops open until near dawn. One Indian journalist stated unequivocally that the U.S.'s greatest contribution to modern times is free matches. "Every place else in the world, you have to buy them from government monopolies." he said. "Here they come sliding out of cigarette machines even if the cigarettes don't." Bargain-hunting French students have discovered the free samples and trial offers in U.S. magazines. "My second day in Boston. I bought a dozen magazines, clipped out all the coupons...
Devastating Effect. A few proponents of the N-bomb have hinted that the Atomic Energy Commission's scientists, under the direction of Chairman Glenn Seaborg, are not making enough effort to develop it-because they think it cannot or should not be done. Responsible officials in many branches of the Government are quick to respond with categorical denials. Admiral John T. Hayward, head of Navy research and development, says that the AEC's labs are doing all they can, and doing it well. Senators on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy agree. All authorities insist that while other...
...system of refining iron ore with natural gas instead of coke. If successful, A.D.L.'s "fluid-bed" furnace would enable coal-poor countries, such as Venezuela, to develop their own steel industries...
Stalin, the apparent international loser, showed the greatest enterprise; his agents were able to develop the techniques, so useful later in eastern Europe, by which a Communist minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...