Word: ods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Representative Robert Mollohan, subcommittee chairman, noted that from Jan. 1, 1950 to June 1, 1955, Class I railroads (those with annual revenues of at least $1,000,000) bought 310,853 new freight cars under fast write-offs. But they junked 342,287 cars during the same peri od, for a net loss of 31,434 cars. As a result, railroads and shippers are now being badly pinched by a freight-car shortage...
...ordinary citizen will hardly be familiar with zarfs (cuplike stands for small coffee cups), yauds (work horses) or vugs (small rock cavities), and he may also be surprised to learn that a varus man is bowlegged, that an od is a theoretical force, that a peri is a type...
When a student, whose account was $20 in the red, came into the Cambridge Trust Company to withdraw $20,head teller Axel A. Lindberg explained to him that the letters "OD" on his bank statement stood for "overdrawn," and not "on deposit." Until this fall, after 42 years with Cambridge, and now in a part-time job with Reliance Cooperative Bank, Lindberg has continued to administer such service with a properly reserved grin...
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 58, Deputy Premier Minister of War, will boss the army, navy and airforce. Son of a factory clerk, meagerly educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, fought in Siberia. Afterwards turned bureaucrat-businessman. 1922, chief od Russia's largest electrical equipment plant; 1931, Mayor of Moscow; 1938, chairman of GOSBANK (Russia's Federal Reserve). In 1941, doffed his business suit, became political commissar of the armies defending Moscow, full general 1944, marshal 1947, but is primarily politician bossing army professionals. Politburo member, 1948. Small, neatly dressed, goateed, mild in manner and tone. Married a girl...
Within the next few hours, he hurried on to confer with the Cabinet and the Military Committee of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), dressed in well-creased pinks and OD jacket with a single row of ribbons (the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters, the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit). Then he was ready for his first public report to the nation...