Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole aviation industry was hopping mad; the Air Forces felt like a redheaded stepchild. The Army-Navy joint board had not yet seen fit to revamp its pre-Pearl Harbor priorities, except to move up replacements for lost ships. Production Boss Donald Nelson had hoped that the Army & Navy would settle this row without civilian interference. He could afford to wait a bit: by arbitrary allocation of materials, the airplane industry had not really been hurt...
...fraternal squabble. Owner of the paper and Scott's boss is an ex-President of Panama, Dr. Harmodio Arias, brother to present President Dr. Arnulfo Arias. Dr. Harmodio backed his brother until he took office last autumn, then changed his mind, saying that Dr. Arnulfo planned to revamp the Republic along fascist lines. Aside from ideological considerations, Dr. Harmodio dislikes Dr. Arnulfo's nationalism because he is attorney for big U. S. corporations. Since the election the Panama American has gone after Dr. Arnulfo hot & heavy...
...Leverage trusts need not revamp their capital structures, but henceforth no investment trust, new or old, may issue more than one class of securities: common stock...
Harvard cannot immediately revamp the preparatory school structure, and it may find outright adoption of the Chicago plan impracticable. But by a number of partial reforms it can succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field...
...been that he had a swell band until nineteen thirty-six and the coming of Harry James--that he and his band suffered a serious drop in both popularity and real playing ability--that Benny hung onto his sadly dilapidated powerhouse style until last year when he started to revamp his band...