Word: repair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restaurant. When he was seven, they took him back to Greece. In the National Technical University at Athens, Christofilos took electrical engineering. After graduation in 1938, he went to work for an elevator-building company. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, they turned the plant into a truck repair shop and gave him an easy supervisory job. Christofilos seized the chance to read all the German books he could get on advanced atomic physics. After the war he returned to the elevator business, but kept on restlessly reading physics...
...Angeles, even boxing arenas and ballparks; for the fiscal year (ending March 31) it expects membership to rise by 425,000 and hit more than 1,000,000, billings to be $140 million, up 54%. American Express, which recently signed 3,753 auto dealers to honor its cards on repair jobs, has attracted 600,000 members. Hoteluminary Conrad Hilton has signed Socony Mobil's 32,000 gas stations, plans to launch a card for most consumer wants, starts with 1,000,000 Hilton-Statler cardholders. Name: Carte Blanche...
...million was $6,300,000 below the nearest domestic bidder. TVA found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national security? Replied TVA: Total war would probably knock out foreign and U.S. plants alike, thus "early repair or replacement would seem unlikely no matter where the unit was built...
Despite Williams' desperate attempts to repair the economy, however, there is no question that his name has become closely linked with the state's troubles in many minds. Although he had been considered a possibility for the 1960 presidential nomination, the current crisis has almost ruined his chances. Even more damaging has been his alignment with liberalism, one which conservatives have gleefully seized as indicative of weakness in the entire Michigan Democratic movement. U.S. News and World Report ran Reuther's picture next to that of Williams in its coverage of the situation, although Reuther had almost no part...
Asked Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright: suppose the U.S. sent an armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...