Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soil, 2 ft. of concrete or 2½ inches of steel. Hoegh hopes to find many a shield of that size readymade. In addition he will finance architectural and engineering research on methods of incorporating more sophisticated shelters into new homes and buildings. He would also pick an underground garage, school or hospital under construction in each state, put up the extra cost of adding shelter facilities, then urge local governments and industry to emulate the example. All in all, in an age when missiles have become a real threat, Hoegh's plans represented a modest beginning...
Entrance Requirement. In Wilmington, Calif., arrested for auto theft, William P. Loudermilk explained: "I only took the car so I could pick up my buddy who's getting out of San Quentin...
...behind Britain's Peter Collins in another Ferrari. But then Hawthorn's car began to develop oil-pressure trouble. Hawthorn nursed it carefully, hung on in second place, lost precious seconds when he had to pull into the pits for extra oil. Though he then began to pick up time on Collins' speeding Ferrari, it was too late to catch...
...inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums, to pick up speed again. Many companies, particularly in heavy industries, can be expected to examine their present capacity with an eye to future contingencies, dust off expansion plans they had previously deferred during the recession...
What it meant to the economy was that the moneyed U.S. farmer was fast becoming a pillar of strength, buying and consuming with rare power to pick up the slack from other social groups. To many a businessman, the strongest market of 1958 is the farm market-the equivalent of discovering a rich, import-hungry foreign country. In Bloomington, Ill. Sears, Roebuck reports that its trucks go out loaded with freezers, ranges and refrigerators; on R.D.S. routes freezer sales alone are running 50% ahead of last year. Nor are appliances the only things that farmers want. With cash...