Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shape, New Strategy. In the two years since he left the presidency of Ford Motor Co. to take over the Pentagon, McNamara has changed the whole size and shape of the U.S. defense establishment-and its grand strategic design. The price for such progress is an increase of $8.4 billion over the last Eisenhower defense budget. Items...
...less clearly adaptive. It is known that a newborn Negro baby has more advanced bone development than a white baby. The early lead of the Negro continues throughout growth, so that the adult Negro possesses a generally heavier skeleton than the white adult. Also, Negro babies seem to develop motor control more rapidly than white babies. Among Negro adults, there seem to be different endocrine mechanisms regulating body responses to stress...
...GENERAL MOTORS' FUTURAMA, designed by Albert Kahn Associates, has a façade looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney...
When the Swedish Ambassador to Britain, furious at the Earl's description of Sweden as "a piddling country," challenged him to a duel, the Earl accepted with alacrity. "I have suggested as a meeting place the Hyde Park underpass, and as weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living...
Chilly Reception. Most of the customized treatment truckers demand, however, stems from the jobs their trucks must perform and their desire to keep maintenance costs down. Before placing an order for 160 International Harvester truck tractors, engineers of Charlotte's Johnson Motor Lines-one of the biggest U.S. truck fleets-tested two pilot models for a year, then asked for changes from windshield wipers to heaters. It was partly because Bell Telephone, the world's biggest commercial truck customer (8,800 purchased a year), wanted a Volkswagen-styled side-door compact truck that Ford and Chevy two years...