Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal grand jury let the public in on one such cloak-and-dagger game: it indicted four men for receiving Gulf Oil Co. maps stolen by an employee, and trying to peddle them for prices reportedly up to $500,000. But even that kind of money was chicken feed to one of the indicted men: Odie Richard Seagraves, 68, an almost legendary wheeler-dealer in a land where Big Deals are as common as air-conditioned Cadillacs...
...produce the original atom bomb. Its capital investment in nuclear sites and equipment has grown from $1.2 billion in 1947 to almost $7 billion today. Said the report: "The current program has attained its goal of geographic dispersion of vital components of the weapon 'assembly line.'" To feed that hungry line, and to provide for tomorrow's civil atom-power market, the U.S. has become "the world's greatest producer of uranium with more than 1,000 mines now operating...
About 8:40 one morning last week, Warren Deane Thomas, a 26-year-old Ohio State University graduate student and employee of the Columbus Zoo, walked into the monkey house to feed the animals. When he reached the cage of Christina, a nine-year-old, 280-lb. gorilla, he found her squatting listlessly in a far corner, indifferent to the hard-boiled egg he held. Then he saw why: on the floor squirmed a baby gorilla-probably the first ever born in captivity...
World in Color. But the NBC president had serious matters to discuss. He an nounced that next year NBC will produce, three times a week for 26 weeks, instructional programs in mathematics, the humanities and government, and feed them live-and free-to the nation's 22 edu cational TV stations. The programs will be kinescoped for repeat telecasts or classroom use. In producing them (cost: $300,000), NBC will work with leading educators and the Educational Television and Radio Center at Ann Arbor, Mich...
...paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...