Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil a small, hitherto unknown company named Torgbraz came to the fore as the Soviet Union's trading arm. Run by a retired Brazilian colonel and a "refugee" from Russia, Torgbraz (Trade-Brazil) offered to supply Petrobras, the state oil monopoly, with crude oil, drilling and refinery equipment on either "short-or long-term payment." (At present Petrobras gets equipment from U.S. companies on strictly businesslike terms...
This double-bill of Sartre and Williams marks the advent of a new Boston "off-Broadway" repertory theatre. Judging by the first production, the group seems destined to be more long-lived than its red-inked fore-bearers. The major point in its favor is that this is a fairly limited venture with a small staff and a converted attic successfully adapted into a small theatre in the "square," seating about 140 people on both sides of an unelevated floor space...
...World. For once, Joe Kennedy underestimated himself: he and Rose had a mere nine children-but Joe's fortune is reckoned at more than $200 million. He became general manager of the huge Fore River shipbuilding yard at Quincy during World War I, joined the investment banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., sold short and made $15 million in a few hours during the market crash of 1929, served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-35) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937)-and was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the ominous years...
Solids to the Fore. To be used in liquid-fueled rockets, both fuel and oxydizer must be liquid and thin enough to be pumped rapidly. This rules out promising materials, e.g., boron itself and many of its compounds, that are not liquid at ordinary temperatures. One way around this difficulty is to grind them finely and mix them with a liquid carrier to form a paintlike slurry. The most radical way is to burn them as solids with a solid oxydizer. Through this technique, a long list of new high-energy materials can be used...
Meanwhile, since white man's medicine has so far failed them, the Fore see no reason to abandon their own; they still practice tukavu when they think they can get away with...