Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital on bridges, roads and other bombed facilities. A major project: establishing a primitive "grid" of interconnecting roads to offer alternative routes if the bombings resumed. Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often ran one train up to a bombed-out stretch, then transferred its entire cargo to a train waiting on the other side...
...service has done so well that Verger and Laval have spread to seven other French cities, Vienna, Brussels and London. Half a dozen competing firms have started up in Paris, but Laval feels that the demand for fix up is still well ahead of the supply. Even SOS has recently turned down some calls for lack of men and trucks. "The service situation in France can't go anywhere but down," says he gleefully, and is making plans to double his fleet...
...ministers opened talks with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann. The Venezuelans want more than a simple increase in royalties to bankroll their grand industrial-development plans. Among other things, they seek a stronger voice in the companies' policies and the power to fix the world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade the U.S. Government to increase the import quotas for Venezuelan crude oil, which...
...photograph it clearly. Preparing slides for microscopic inspection usually necessitated the use of liquid solutions that immediately revived anabiotic cells, altering the dormant structures. Now, because of the perseverance of German Botanist Ernst Perner, several theories about anabiosis have finally been confirmed. By using dry osmic-acid vapors to fix and stain his slides, Perner has successfully photographed anabiotic pea cells with an electron microscope...
...live with the harsh consequences of a dishonorable discharge. Though he had served from the Sicilian invasion to the Japanese occupation, Ashe was barred from 46 Government benefits, including free education, hospitalization, housing, unemployment compensation and burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Like other ex-servicemen in the same fix, Ashe had no right of appeal in any court. It was, he says, "really like dying...