Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Projecting from the basement up to a portion of the fifth floor is the vertical "stack," in which all radioactive materials are handled. For these, like other hospitals specializing in cancer, Anderson has special areas surrounded by lead and concrete safeguards...
...list of Government charges and carefully demolished each in turn. The U.S. charged that through Du Pont's ownership of 23% of General Motors stock, the company pressured G.M. to buy Du Pont products. Wrote La Buy: "No agreement was made . . . which bound [G.M.] to buy any portion of its requirements from Du Pont . . . [Du Pont] did not limit General Motors' purchasing freedom...
...Armament awakens unpleasant memories," Conant continued. "We must approach Germany with a healthy portion of realism." Despite dangers, there is "a very real effort in Germany to break with the evil and dangerous in its military tradition," he said...
...board composed of four men from each side and a neutral outsider to run the company until the regular annual meeting in March, when Lamb, with 215,000 of the company's 366,841 shares, expects to take over completely. Lamb plans to use a good portion of Air-Way's cash and accounts receivable (about $8,500,000) to increase dividends (now about 80? a share) and buy other small firms, thus diversify the company's production...
With the advent of the twentieth century, Beck Hall's chandeliers soon began to lose their brilliance. A portion of the ground floor was even given over to "a school for teaching young women the art of riding on a bicycle." Eventually, construction of Claverly in 1893 and other later dormitories forced this original Gold Coast mansion to surrender its social prominence to Mt. Auburn Street. It was torn down...