Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic advantages of Dracones are their cheapness (about $5,600 for the 100-ft. job) and the fact that they can be pumped dry at the end of a voyage, rolled up, and shipped back to a source of oil as cargo of a small towing vessel...
...END OF RAIL TRAVEL by 1970 is predicted by ICC Examiner Howard Hosmer, head of commission's investigation into rail passenger problems. He says that if passenger drop continues as expected, all Pullman service will be out by 1965, all coach service by 1970, and commuter trains will go later...
...National, that urges them: "For the building of the new Japan, unite your hearts, unite your efforts. Give your all. Let us send our products to the people of the world in an unending stream." Employees then tree off to their work benches, but the uplift does not end there. In their monthly pay envelopes are pictures of Founder Matsushita beaming broadly over additional mottoes such as: "Be frugal; save...
There he and helpers turned out parts for a large manufacturer of fans. On the side he invented and patented a new type of plug (first of his 50 inventions), expanded rapidly, went into the manufacture of fighter planes during World War II. At war's end the Occupation purged him briefly, but by 1949 he was again going full blast. Today he makes 28% of Japan's radios, a high percentage of the TV sets, broadcasting equipment, a full line of kitchen appliances, motors, transformers and other electrical supplies...
...Possum's Book of Practical Cats-my young godchildren call me Uncle Possum-than anything else I've ever written." What would he like to write next? Possibly more poetry, but "it will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different and more difficult conditions...