Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconnaissance group into the Alps to scout various possible routes, settled on Clapier pass because it fitted most of the meager clues left by the historians. Ancient accounts say Hannibal camped two days at the summit: the summit at Clapier pass is flat enough and big enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army. Other points that tally with old descriptions: from Clapier pass, the Po River Valley is visible, and a steep trail leads down in the direction of Turin. Hoyte's next step: to prove the route was suitable for elephant travel within the time taken by Hannibal...
...cavity gets bigger and exposes more surface to the heat. Since the amount of hot gas generated is proportional to the area of burning fuel, the gas pressure keeps rising until just before burnout. The effect is that solid-fuel rockets of this type must have superstrong casings to hold the peak pressure, and must thus pay a penalty in weight...
Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) is a nogoodnik of a widower, a sort of amiable gonif (the names have been changed, but the characterizations are still Jewish). He is about to lose his sweaty hold on a two-bit Miami Beach hotel, but Big Shot Frankie. looking to turn a fast buck, spends his time trying to promote grandiose business ideas, romancing a far-out bongo-banging broad who lives at the top of the stairs, and treating his eleven-year-old son like a grownup. Faced with eviction, Frankie calls on his apoplectic brother (Edward G. Robinson), a rich...
...Harvard students' report finds that both small and big businesses need "effective competitive intelligence systems" to hold their own in today's competitive business world-and that setting them up on a formal, ethical basis may do away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds a warning through the words of one executive: "If you spend too much time finding out what your competitor is doing, you may be spending too little time developing newer products and processes of your own. You become less imaginative, less dynamic, less resourceful...
Aware that North German Lloyd was synonymous with service, Bertram and Kulenkampff set up a hotel and restaurant in Bremen to hold together stewards and cooks, placed seamen on other ships until jobs were ready for them. With $22 million in government loans and fast tax write-offs, they quickly built up a fleet of new freighters, now have 40 in service...