Word: revamps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement of many old professors, the imminent appointment of a new dean, and the placing of new professors gives the School an opportunity to revamp its teaching program although, supplementing its traditional historical approach with more modern methods of training...
...Commerce Department officials were reported ready to revamp their estimates of total 1953 construction from $33.5 billion to $34.5 billion...
...completed until almost a year and a half after Steel Co. of Wales was nationalized. It has $47.6 million in issued capital, but is worth more than $196 million. The difference is borrowed money, which went into finishing the plant. Sir John plans first to retire the debt, revamp the capital structure. Even after that is done, investors will look twice before buying into the company. Its streamlined plant requires a steady high rate of production in order to show a profit. It would be hit first and hardest by even a small business slump, while older plants might...
When Child Specialist Helen Taussig and Surgeon Alfred Blalock (after years of experiments on animals) worked out a solution to the blue-baby problem, their proposal looked daring indeed: to revamp the arteries close to the heart so that more blood is pumped to the lungs to get its full quota of oxygen. It worked. Within a year, 80 of the blue boys and blue girls operated on at Johns Hopkins went home a healthy pink, and were soon able to run and play as if nothing had ailed them. The children thus saved from crippling and early death...
After a couple of years, as the novelty wore off and crowds dwindled, Planetarium Chairman Robert Coles and his staff had to brush up on their showmanship. Not only did they revamp their programs; they also went to work on the halls and lobby. Where visitors once could examine meteorites and look at telescopic pictures of the moon, they can now stop at a bank of scales to compare the weights they would register on various planets. Or they can study the newest exhibit of all: 14 black-light astronomical murals (see opposite page...