Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...
Delouvrier has also ordered a complete overhaul of the regroupment system, under the scrutiny of teams of doctors, engineers and agricultural experts. Last week, in an event unique in French clerical history, the heads of the French Protestant and Roman Catholic churches issued a joint appeal for French aid to Algerian D.P.s, as a helpless people entitled to aid-even while French soldiers make war on, and are killed by, other Algerians in the hills...
...through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
Chairman James S. Duncan resigned because of "ill health," and Colonel W. Eric Phillips, backed by 30% of the voting stock, became chairman and chief executive officer. Phillips, who had brought Thornbrough to Toronto from the Ferguson tractor division a year before, promoted him to president with authority to overhaul the company...
...games set the varsity's record back to 5-3-2, which means that only by a minor Act of God can it hope to overhaul either B.C. or Clarkson in the Eastern standings. The team has little to be ashamed of, however, for it turned in a creditable performance against a good Eagle team, with a fine goalie and two excellent defensemen...