Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diesel locomotive, cost $788,000, with a per-seat cost of $2,300 v. $3,800 for conventional cars. The steel and aluminum train weighs 451,000 Ibs., slightly over half the 807,000 Ibs. of Rock Island's 20-year-old Peoria Rocket. Thus, the locomotive need develop only 1,200 h.p. v. 2,000 h.p. for conventional engines, makes the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run on $10 worth of fuel, one-third the standard amount...
...foundation will try to obtain several big name actors and directors in an attempt "to set up a series of high quality productions to illustrate the type of thing which might develop at Harvard," Morris added...
...leader said he would join with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas in offering a resolution tomorrow to set up a special committee to develop all the facts about the $2,500 campaign contribution offer reported by Case...
Despite these danger signals, Carrillo Flores is confident that if the government does not impose further controls to stifle business growth, the economy will develop its own counter-inflationary forces. The latest reports suggest that he is right: in the last quarter of the year, the cost-of-living index and wholesale prices were held to a modest 1% rise...
...Advocate. Raditsa feels that none of its members will assume any intellectual "responsibility," that is, the board will commit itself to no opinion nor does it attempt to find what is really new in intellectual and literary currents. Thus, by sticking exclusively to its present aim--to develop undergraduate craftsmen--the Advocate has shirked its responsibility as a publication...