Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After getting repeated bulletins on Japan's worsening plight, the Eisenhower Administration decided to step in. Last week four departments-State, Defense, Treasury and Commerce-and two agencies-the Foreign Operations Administration and the President's Council of Economic Advisers-were set to looking for solutions. Present diagnosis: Japan is in no danger of imminent economic collapse, but collapse will surely come if the present trend goes...
...more jobs for doctors. One Bonn physician sourly observed: "Maybe if the Communists steal enough good men, it will make the pepper sacks [stingy ones] in the government spend a few pfennigs [to employ more doctors] . . ." On the other hand, West German doctors do not overlook the plight of their ill-doctored countrymen and do not actually discourage transfers to Communist Germany. Said the association's secretary general, Dr. Joseph Stockhausen: "When doctors . . . ask us about the contracts the Communists are offering, we try to explain the terrible needs of the Eastern zone-as well as the risks. What...
...headquarters of William Mc-Pherson Allen, president of Boeing Airplane Co.; the cactus was given to him almost nine years ago as a symbol of his job when Allen took over as Boeing's new president. Scrawny, stunted and thorny, the plant then symbolized Boeing's postwar plight, with two of the company's plants silent and empty, 38,000 of its wartime workers out of jobs. Today, President Allen's bitter little cactus is tall, green and fat, and as flourishing as any in the entire Pacific Northwest...
...desperate plight, Boeing reacted in a characteristic manner: it decided to gamble $650,000 of its remaining bankroll on a plane to compete for an Army multi-engined bomber contract. To most bomber designers, the word "multi"meant just two engines. But Boeing, using its knowledge gained in big transports, planned on a true giant, the heaviest warplane ever built. Designed by Beall and Wells, Boeing's prototype 6-17 weighed 22 tons, had four engines, could hit more than 200 m.p.h. for 3,000 miles at an altitude of 24,000 ft. Looking at it, a newsman exclaimed...
There is also the plight of a diamond dandy in Tally One for Me: I soon will stop my "balling" For my heart is led astray 'Twas stolen by a nice young girl By her exquisite play...