Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Logistics Bottleneck. The work is being done with impressive speed. Military insistence on standardization of buildings has helped, and so has the services' willingness to lend the companies idle equipment. Carving a jet field at Cam Ranh out of scrub and sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...
...demonstrated by the marketplace successes of such things as textured stockings, the electric carving knife, skate boards, diet cola, shoe-shining machines and speed-reading courses. Getting backers for a sound idea is no real problem; credit is cheaper (average interest rate: 5%) and bankers more eager to lend in the U.S. than in any other major nation...
...Harry Hoffman, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's committee on dietetics, he and his colleagues have been asked to put their seal of approval on just about every weight-reducing regimen ever devised by man. The answer has always been the same. Not only did Mayo never lend its name to the so-called Mayo Clinic Diet, Dr. Hoffman told the Grocery Manufacturers of America, but the clinic is equally scornful of just about every other popularized formula for reducing...
Richard M. Hunt, head tutor in Social Studies, conceded that "the generals may be changed," though he said the basic format of oral and written exams will remain the same. "The Committee on Social Studies is open-minded and will lend a favorable car to any reasonable proposal," he said...
...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...