Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hughes and Koestler met by chance in Ashkhabad in 1932, and it is interesting to compare their accounts of the weeks they spent together in Russian Central Asia. Koestler had come to inspect the accomplishments of the Soviet Five Year Plan in backward areas such as Ashkhabad, while Hughes was enjoying a free vacation at the expense of the Russians after the movie he had come to Russia to make had turned into a fiasco...
...elect a President, Vice-president, Recording Secretary and Graduate Treasurer whose office it will be to inspect those buildings extant, and to determine which of those now standing can best be torn down...
...echoes of the savage repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial inspection plan. deployment" between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, which would allow the West to inspect satelliteland and a sliver of Russia, but permit Russian planes to fly over a disarmed Germany, most of France, and half of Britain...
...raise most of it, Albert borrowed $4,500,000 from Mas-tan & Co. of New York, pledging his Nelson holdings as collateral. -Then he got Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., a factoring house, to lend $3,600,000 to Nelson. When Heller's agents came to inspect the Nelson plant and books, the officers protested that they needed no loan, were loaded with cash. But Albert had his hand-picked executive vice president, Keith Munroe, sign the Heller note when Nelson's president was sick in a hospital...
This afternoon the group will attend the dedication of the new Braun common room in Andover Hall and then inspect other recent renovations of the School. The Rev. Theodore P. Ferris, rector of Trinity Church in Boston, will speak at the dedication...