Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission announced that beginning next September, 103 Negro children of the atomic city of Oak Ridge would attend junior and senior high schools along with 2,600 whites. Thus Oak Ridge will become the first town in all of Tennessee to find out what desegregated schools...
...From two Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers came the recommendation that the commission approve initial financing of the Dixon-Yates plan to supply power to TVA at West Memphis, Ark. in exchange for a similar amount of power from TVA to the Atomic Energy Commission at Paducah, Ky. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. The contract is legal, said the lawyers, and the proposed profit to Dixon-Yates is "not significantly out of line...
...chief collector of revenue for the Peruvian government leaned back in a chair in his oak-paneled office one morning last week, held up a slip of paper and chortled. "This," he remarked genially, "is the biggest private check ever paid in Peru." Then, turning businesslike, he handed a receipt to the lawyer who had just given Peru $3,000,000 on behalf of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, shipping, gambling and whaling tycoon...
...think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust and grit into the grooves in the manner of a furniture dealer 'antiquing' or liming oak." The noveau hi-fi was suitably impressed, now has "a large collection of bad-sounding rarities...
...Tokyo last week the government's powerful Foreign Investment Council met in the Bank of Japan's oak-paneled conference room to screen foreign investment proposals. Before it were 70 applications, most of them from U.S. corporations who wished to invest an estimated $34 million in Japan. When the meeting adjourned two hours later, a spokesman declared: "In due time the companies involved will be informed of any progress...