Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit insiders were able to put together the story. The overhaul in Chrysler purchasing policies started last fall when a tough young (38) engineer...
...only growing city among the nation's top ten was third-ranked Los Angeles, up from 1,970,000 to 2,452,000, but Los Angeles County expanded twice as rapidly, from 4,152,000 to 6,020,000, to overhaul Chicago's Cook County as the nation's second biggest metropolitan area (after the New York area's 14.6 million). Other gainers were cities that still have space for suburban-type living in town, such as Atlanta (up 47% to 487,000) and Tampa...
...Gaulle had hoped to combat the rising cost of living by an all-out overhaul of France's antiquated food distribution system, under which nearly every vegetable or farm animal produced in France must be shipped to Paris' Les Halles market for sale or reshipment to the provinces. But the reform has been put off because of the cost of prosecuting the Algerian war. Last week embattled artichoke growers at St.-Pol-de-Leon dumped 800 tons of artichokes into a quarry and doused them with diesel oil in protest at the fall of the farm price...
This time the Opposition hungrily decided that the Pentagon had pulled the rug from under Diefenbaker for good. Socialist Leader Hazen Argue, who argues that Canada should spend its defense money on international good works, angrily shouted that Canadian defenses were "useless and due for a complete overhaul." For the Liberals, Lester ("Mike") Pearson charged that "every dollar being spent on Bomarc is in great danger of being wasted...
...Overhaul. In Long Beach, Calif., Jerome Colwell complained to police that a thief had stripped accessories from his car, which had been parked in one spot for two months while he was in jail for car stripping...