Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Meader, onetime staff director of the Senate Government Operations Committee, announced that he would force the urban affairs plan to a House vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat the discharge petition...
...swallow fibermaking Courtaulds Ltd. (TIME, Jan. 26), the loudest have come from mild-mannered Avison Wormald, 49, managing director of Fisons Ltd. another multimillion-dollar British chemical company. A onetime boarding school teacher who sparked Fisons to much-needed modernization and expansion. Wormald accused I.C.I, of wanting "to obtain complete control of the manmade fiber industry in this country in order to participate in a European fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb." Last week, Fisons' board accepted Wormald's month-old offer to resign. The split...
...serious a problem as the immediate radioactivity after a blast. I only wish that Mr. Gruen would accept the book for what it is--advice based on present knowledge. If Mr. Gruen were looking for an analysis aimed at an audience with a higher educational background, he might obtain the McGraw-Hill report "Nuclear Attack and Industrial Survival" which is addressed to many of the same problems as Fallout Protection...
...attempt by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to obtain the Bennett St. MTA Yards by the right of eminent domain may develop into a major court battle, legal experts told the CRIMSON yesterday...
Lawyers pointed out that the City and its Redevelopment Authority must obtain the right to exercise the power of eminent domain from the Commonwaltth of Massachusetts. They stressed that the MTA, as a special agency of the state, also obtains its power from the Commonwealth...