Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automated devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performance-a characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company hand for 46 years, who resigned as president and board chairman. The post of president remains vacant. Toronto-born and educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British...
...planned for this summer. It feels that this is a whole area of important dramatic literature too often relegated to the classroom, and that these works, which are classics for good reason, will return to the popular repertory if they are properly presented. And to reinforce this conviction, "to implement, in a practical fashion, the notion that today's student can be tomorrow's steady theatregoer," the Festival is offering students a 50 percent reduction in ticket price, and is reserving for them 300 good seats in Sanders theatre for every performance...
Uddermost. In Gillingham, England, Farmer Henry Haskett was haled into court for carrying a piano in a truck insured only for agricultural use, claimed it was a farm implement, explained to the judge: "Twice a day my wife and son take turns playing soothing music at milking time. Some cows won't yield milk unless they are kept amused...
...success of such a philosophy, of course, depends on the money with which to implement it. Sachar had the good sense to realize that he could not count on support simply because of a vague sympathy by Jews for a Jewish undertaking. It is a truism about American Jewry that its members dun each other for a perplexing number of causes. Instead, Sachar realized that the University's principles, if understood by potential benefactors, could lead to more certain bases of support...
From the farms the harder times have spread to the small towns in the farm country. Hardest hit are implement dealers, who do most of their business with farmers. Auto dealers have been hurt, too, but not nearly as much. Clark Sheesley, the Buick-Chevrolet dealer in Cambridge, Ill. is doing 75% less business with farmers than he was a year ago, but his total business is down a still uncomfortable-but much smaller...