Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Tanaka had turned his single pedicab into a fleet of ten. Still it was not good enough. "Bicycles and jinrikishas are too laborious," roared the veteran fighting man to his cowering assistants at their garage one day. "Automobiles are still a luxury. It is I who must find a middle ground...
...Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab." Yet, it was evidence that the son of a famous father, after only a year in the U.S., was making...
...Detroit show, successfully avoiding the fake modern Steinberg abhorred, managed to make its biggest point: with a sharp eye and a little persistence the average shopper could find enough handsome, well-designed contemporary furnishings to fill any modern home...
...could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract. But Boeing's Vice President Wellwood E. Beall warned that Congress would have to act soon. Said he: "We will lose not only world markets to the British jets, but because of competition may find our own airlines forced into buying British...
...investors reluctant to send their money abroad? In Manhattan, Andre Istel, a French banker and onetime delegate to the Bretton Woods monetary conference, looked no farther than the U.S. stock market to find one answer. Said he: "The shares of more than 100 American ... corporations of good standing and high yield are selling on the Stock Exchange at prices lower than the per share values of the working capital of these corporations. In other words, the purchaser of stock of these corporations acquires at no cost [his share of] their fixed assets, equipment, good will and technical ability...