Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will be raised and lowered by huge motor-operated jacks designed to keep the radar-topped structures 15 ft. above the snowdrifts...
...archipelago the "Sandwich Islands" when he dropped anchor off Kauai in 1778, got a god's welcome from thousands of handsome Polynesians again when he returned the following year, then was killed by natives during a fight over petty thievery. By 1796, the islands were under the firm, beneficent rule of King Kamehameha I. who united the land after ten years of civil war among smaller chieftains, and began turning his domain into a thriving nation. After his death in 1819, his son Liholiho (Kamehameha II) took over, began the systematic abandonment of old taboos and island traditions...
This 15-minute film will cost about $1000, while a similar black and white sound picture would cost 15 times as much from a commercial firm, Gibson estimated...
Harkness Commons will probably operate on a cafeteria basis next fall, Louis A. Toepfer '14, vice-Dean of the Law School, announced yesterday. The step was recommended recently in a report by the management consultant firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster...
Toepfer, who is a member of the Faculty committee studying the firm's report, said a net loss of $27,000 is expected at Harkness this year. Sales volume has fallen steadily since 1953 in the face of rising operating costs, he noted...