Word: rusted
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...important as an illustration of what the Corporation does and does not worry about. Many colleges are not concerned with the comparatively piddling sums that go into adjusting a few bolts or rust-proofing some girders, but rather with the problem of cramming a mass of paying spectators into the stands. These institution must ponder over the expense of maintaining physical education scholarships, supplying make-work jobs promising quarterbacks, and keeping the alumni with successful coaches. In addition they must worry whether or not the football gate receipts will cover single the expense of maintaining their athletic plants...
...huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names"North-wind" and "Westwind" on their bows. Six years after the U.S. had lend-leased these $10,000,000 vessels to its wartime ally, the Russians handed them back, somewhat-the worse for wear and well dappled with rust...
Anti-European isolationism is a possible way out, Brinton believes; "History shows the Japanese doing just this from 1611 to 1833, and the Chinese the same thing for over two centuries. If they cannot run Abadan's refineries themselves, therefore, the Iranians may very well let it go to rust...
...Buenos Aires' La Prensa to "the workers," the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) has struggled to get another edition of the daily on the stands. Twice C.G.T. has set publication dates, but no papers have come out, in part because the government let printing machinery become clogged with rust and dust...
Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid off $340 million of Big Steel's bonded debt just before the 1929 crash, thus enabling it to live through the depression, when-for the first time-it lost money. Taylor modernized equipment and, more importantly, changed Big Steel's labor relations...