Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often painfully, where the program is lagging. "The successes and failures of all departments get a good airing," Schriever says. "We try to take lessons from the success or failure of one department and apply it to another. This goes on all the time...
...frequently the poems reveal a translator who has succumbed to the haste which is so inviting when one is dealing with the Greek lyrics. Their compactness and delicate balance--particularly the epigrams--are deceptive and lead the over-anxious into insipid work. Too few of these selections attain the strength of the few which are excellent...
...fight for control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Financier Leopold Silberstein operated with all the cloak-and-dagger tactics of international intrigue. He masked his buying of F-M stock by using Swiss banks, which are forbidden by law to reveal names of customers, and by making purchases from a handful of mysterious sellers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for helping Silberstein. All told, said Silberstein last week, his Penn-Texas Corp., a grab bag of 20 companies has bought-or agreed to buy-some $35 million in F-M shares. He can count...
...consumer, the Federal Reserve Board found, was also looking forward to a good year. Preliminary findings of the board's 1957 survey of consumer finances, released this week, reveal that the consumer is not only better off than ever financially but expects to improve his standing even more as the year continues. More important, the survey points out that U.S. consumers have no intention of cutting back in 1957, plan to spend as much money for major expenditures as they did last year...
Soon the mansion is oppressive with rampant femininity. Curtains part to reveal a feminine world of black bras and girdles, as a woman, whose soberer decisions may mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to a U.S. clothing firm, peers into a mirror with the teetering look of calculated indecision, the peculiar mark of a woman buying a dress for herself. Outside, a thousand newspapers and a hundred periodicals were beginning to thunder the word to the limit of the known world. This year the word on Dior is: "The line is free, free as the Paris air ... free from making...