Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew this better than "inactive" Candidate Averell Harriman and his politically wise advisers, including Tammany Hall Sachem Carmine De Sapio, and this week they made the most of it. Appearing on a radio panel show, Harriman jumped in with both feet. He 1) defended the Powell amendment, and 2) demanded "immediate federal enforcement" of the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling...
...practical economic goals of Kubitschek's term are set forth in a 247-page document drafted in 1955 by Kubitschek and a brain-trust panel headed by Lucas Lopes, a brilliant engineer who bossed the Minas Gerais electric-energy program. To implement the plan, the President will set up, with Lopes as chairman, an Economic Development Committee made up of key administration officials and economic technicians. Kubitschek expects private capital to do most of the development job. "My government will interfere," he says, "only when private enterprise is unwilling or unable to carry out what is indispensable." The program...
...produce less than 800,000 kw. by 1960 v. some 160 million kw. from conventional plants. But by 1965 atomic power could be competitive in cost with conventional plants, and by 1980 atomic-power capacity may soar to 135 million kw., 20% of the nation's total. The panel's forecast for atomic-power equipment sales from 1960-80: $27 billion. However, the overall U.S. demand for electric power will climb so fast that conventional power plants will also expand...
...Word to the Audience. In London, Cambridge Archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel, 41, took his place as M.C. on a TV quiz show, studied the sheaf of poisoned arrows he was asking a panel of experts to identify, remarked moodily: "I should like to kill a few million people, and most of them would be viewers...
Waterproof Plywood. A cheap, plastic-surfaced, waterproof plywood called Duraply, designed for the fast-growing small-boat industry, has been developed by Crown Zellerbach Corp. and U.S. Plywood Corp. Made with a new machine that permits the use of lower-grade logs, a ⅜-in.-thick plywood panel sells at the mill for $157 per 1,000 sq. ft., which Crown Zellerbach says is 16% less than comparable plastic-coated plywoods...