Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overhaul. The Government changed the company's name to American President Lines, Ltd., ran the line as a U.S.-supervised private corporation, and pulled it off the rocks within a year. After pouring in $4,500,000 to slick up the ships, the Government cashed in on the wartime shipping boom. By 1943 the line was able to pay off both the new financing and the $7,500,000 Dollar Line debt, most of it, says American President, out of earnings...
This week the grand jury demanded overhaul of the city's police force. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, with a calculating eye on the coming election, quickly obliged, starting with the ouster of ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's police commissioner, William P. O'Brien. Out of thin air he produced a new commissioner who pleased the jurors just fine: hard-hitting, splendidly mustachioed Thomas F. Murphy, recently resigned federal prosecutor, who had won the conviction of Alger Hiss...
Eight long years later, Kansas decided to overhaul its mental hospitals with the help of the Menninger Clinic. Active treatment, designed to cure patients and return them to a place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott...
...morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos had landed their fellow citizens...
Certainly, there is no call for wild optimism. French equipment sadly needs modernization and overhaul. The French would put up a stiff fight against invasion, but there is no doubt that if Stalin threw caution to the winds and ordered Mao to march south with everything he had, the French would be swept into...