Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker, for if [the U.S. and Canada] are denied steel . . . we must become decadent peoples...
...trade, these techniques are known as animation, stop motion and live action. Now most sponsors demand all three at once. "They want every technique used in a Hollywood film packed into a one-minute commercial," complains Film-Maker Robert Lawrence of Jerry Fairbanks, Inc. "It makes it tough for us and sometimes leaves televiewers bug-eyed." But sponsors' enthusiasm for filmed commercials has resulted in an $8,000,000-a-year business for Manhattan alone. More than, 300 filmmakers, many of them operating on shoestrings, are scrambling for a share of the new jackpot...
...will be written by a constituent assembly still to be elected, Munoz expects that Puerto Rico will form a new kind of political entity under the U.S. flag. It will be neither a territory nor a state; the tax burdens of statehood would be far too heavy. A fertile maker of political phrases, the governor has not yet found the exact word to describe the system under which Puerto Rico will eventually live. "If the U.S. were the British Empire," he once said, "you might call it dominion status...
...company, turn the chairmanship into an advisory post. McCormick opposed the change, but the directors approved it anyway. Promptly McCormick resigned as chairman (but not as a director). For the first time since 1831, when Fowler McCormick's grandfather Cyrus introduced the reaper, the largest U.S. maker of agricultural equipment had no McCormick in a top executive post...
...optical system of the new "Super-Schmidt" camera was designed by James G. Baker, research associate in Astronomy. The design represents a radical advancement over the lens-mirror arrangement developed by the late Bernhard Schmidt, German instrument maker...