Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hayes revealed that the city council may take action to minimize the number of evictions the expressway will cause. Agreeing with McCann that it was now inevitable that the highways would enter Cambridge, he said he was studying a scheme that would save well over a thousand families from eviction...
Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...
Presumably, it was too early-and too embarrassing-to talk about actual abandonment of the whole scheme and the return of the workers to more fruitful pursuits elsewhere in the Soviet Union. After all, Khrushchev's reputation was at stake, which was why Pravda last week was still calling the experiment "a remarkable page in our country's history...
...Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
...Scheme. Until five years ago, Maremont Corp. was almost exclusively a maker of auto mufflers. Looking for broader fields, Arnold Maremont noted that the auto spare-parts business seemed to offer depression-proof growth. The number of cars on the road increases by at least 4,000,000 every year, and spare parts move even when new-car sales falter, because motorists must spend more to keep their old cars running. Maremont also noticed that Detroit auto companies supplied only 30% of the parts, while thousands of independents producing a jumble of reliable and unreliable products fought over the rest...