Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political meetings, Ike had always been a notorious foot-dragger. This time, ready and willing to address the committee's mid-term session, he was obviously a man with a message. Moments later, he took the rostrum to deliver a dart-sharp speech calling for a complete overhaul and rejuvenation of the Republican Party, from precinct captain to panjandrum...
...20th Century-Fox announced that it will completely overhaul a ten-stage Hollywood studio at a cost of "several million dollars" for full TV film production...
...Work. In office, Chichi Remón had paid up the government's bills, enforced income-tax collections, outlawed the Communist Party, negotiated a favorable overhaul of treaty relations with the U.S. over the great canal that bisects Panama. Who wanted to assassinate him? If the Communists had engineered it, the job must have been carefully organized from outside; Panama's local Reds were not up to such a slick, professional gang-style killing...
...SHAKE-UP will be recommended in a Cabinet committee report going to the President this month. The Committee wants the President to ask Congress for a complete overhaul of ICC rules and policies to do away with red tape (TIME, April 5), give rail and highway carriers more freedom to set their own rates, and allow railroads to cut out money-losing passenger lines without the necessity of getting permission from state regulatory bodies...
...restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces threatening its independence and security," to keep an eye on what the French are doing, and finally, to determine whether South Viet Nam can be saved...