Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...
...pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows what it's like." Added a housewife: "He would make a good President...
...said Murphy with characteristically blunt diplomacy. "Why," said he, "this speculation is bunk. I even heard on some radio program that the reason that I was quitting was so I could be out of the State Department if the Democrats came in next year and this would make me available to be appointed Secretary of State. How crazy...
...Shallal, they had never turned up at Wadi Haifa. Those whom the police questioned were shocked to hear that anyone had attempted the trip in two small cars not specially equipped for the desert: since all roads and railways end at Aswan, the only really safe way to make the trip is by Nile steamer. The adventurers had either not known this or not cared-and the Nubian boy they had hired had never been a guide before in his life...
...discussions at the summit might bear eventual fruit. Although there is no chance that a single summit meeting could achieve the complete worldwide disarmament piously proposed by Khrushchev (TIME, Sept. 28), his seeming eagerness to shed some of the economic burdens of the arms race might lead him to make concessions on the all-important question of armaments inspection and control. "Reciprocal concessions" must be made, Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet last week, and this must not be interpreted, he warned his people, as meaning he would give ground on basic ideology...