Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, Onassis' scheme had a canny angle. In return for building the new tankers in the U.S., he wanted permission from the Government to transfer ten of his war-surplus tankers plus another vessel, most of them bought from the U.S., to foreign registry. Running under foreign regulations and paying low foreign wage rates automatically reduces operating costs by as much as 50%, and increases the value of each tanker by approximately...
Last week the Federal Maritime Board approved the "trade-out and build" scheme "in principle," as it has with other shipowners. It was now up to Onassis' to take the next steps and complete the deal. He had 90 days to prove ability to finance the colossal plan and show evidence that he had signed binding construction contracts...
...million-a-year research arm for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Western Electric, has struck some of the biggest pay lodes in industrial history. In 1948 Bell Mathematician Claude Shannon, projecting earlier studies by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Norbert Wiener, published Communication Theory, a complex mathematical scheme for measuring information content in communications, as well as evaluating the performance of systems that transmit words and pictures. The theory opened new horizons in telephone and TV transmission, has already found its way into the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar fence...
...improvement district was organized, and a $12,000 drainage ditch eliminated both health hazards. As the study committees pinpointed other problems, action groups took over. The littered railroad right of way through town was cleared of underbrush; downtown business houses were being repainted according to a master color scheme; vacant buildings were torn down to make way for new; a combination town hall-library-fire station was built. Involved in the project at one time or another: almost 70% of Snoqualmie's residents...
...yangban (noblemen) of Seoul, the whole fantastic scheme seemed as sinister a foreign plot as had ever been brought to Korea. Never before had the country had a school for women, and now an American Methodist Episcopal missionary named Mary Scranton was opening one with the obvious purpose of corrupting Korean womanhood. There were even rumors, back in 1886, that a girl who dared to go there might have her eyes cut out by the missionaries for medical research...