Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...printed $9,441,380,000 worth of currency in fiscal 1951), the Bureau of the Mint (a billion pennies alone), the U.S. Coast Guard (35,000 officers & men, 192 cutters, 62 patrol boats and 36 lightships) and the Coast Guard air arm (113 planes). He will preside over a domain of 88,000 people. He will have his own flag, serve as a trustee for some $18 billion in Social Security funds, and as chairman of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary & Financial Problems...
Although, as with Leonardo, there is no limit to Bucky's interests, and no domain he cannot think himself into or out of, many of his most energetic ideas center in how best to shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front...
...budget by hand. In 1945 Conant decided to appoint Buck "Provost of the University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Since Conant likens each University department to a tub--"every tub will stand on its own bottom"--Buck has almost complete autonomy in an extensive domain that includes the Collage, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. libraries, and research institutions. President Conant act as an appeal board and final judge of overall policy...
Weekend Reflection. Antoine Pinay walked into this domain of canny tacticians and dialectical dancing masters with a misleading double-gait. In the eyes of the public, he was no politician, but to the Assembly he proved to be as wily a one as had come along since the war. He put his proposals to the country as fast as he put them to the Assembly, then calmly told the Deputies: here it is; approve it, or give the responsibility to someone else. The reaction from back home suddenly sounded louder & clearer than the Parisian sidewalk café arguments so dear...
...State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan on the plight of the waterfront. To lay a basis, the commission first cast its subpoena net into a school of neatly groomed waterfront businessmen-heads of stevedoring and shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever was in order. The basis they laid...