Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across nine states, from Texas to Iowa, some 1,300 gas stations in the next few weeks will break out in a bright new color scheme-the shiny blue-and-white gas pumps of a bustling Belgian-born newcomer, American Petrofina. The first major foreign investor in U.S. oil since Shell, Petrofina has grown from only a plan on paper to $100 million in assets in less than two years, now feels strong enough to put its own "Fina" brand name on the gas stations it has picked...
Indignity of Labor? Adler and Kelso expect economists to "clobber the book," and the possible objections are indeed strong. The scheme to diffuse capital might require more governmental control than the present pump-priming devices that K. & A. condemn. If the prescribed spreading of capital were more or less limited, would it give workers (except in theory) relatively more than they have today under high wage scales? Or, if the redistribution of capital were sizable enough to make a real difference, would there be enough capital concentration for new enterprise? Furthermore, the K. & A. vision of a coupon-clipping mass...
...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...
...told reporters that he was determined to carry on. All he had to do, he said, was persuade his trustees to buy his campus to pay off his creditors and then lease it back to a new corporation called Belin University. After that, he planned to embark on another scheme-a retirement village for elderly folks, "especially those who have devoted their lives to God's work." But last week the angered and disillusioned people of Chillicothe hoped that they would soon see the last of the Rev. Dr. Clyde Belin...
...school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just to get on the bandwagon. And many rightly fear that their bright young men will be lured away by corporate talent scouts lurking in the university halls...