Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junketeer. In Lille, France, Abel Pauchet, 36, a part-time scrap-metal collector, was held by police for cutting a 15-ft. section out of the Lille-Tourcoing telephone cable...
Project Orbiter died almost aborning. Reason: the decision was made at the highest Administration levels, and was announced by President Eisenhower in July 1955, to scrap the U.S. satellite as a military project and to make it part of the International Geophysical Year's scientific program. The Navy got the franchise in Project Vanguard, and the Army was ordered to stay away from satellite work...
...more than one visit to the track to learn that there are other ways for jockeys to win. Such great riders as Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17, 1948) and Ted Atkinson, though they may look just as rough as Willie when they are going down the stretch in a scrap for a big purse, sit their mounts with something that could be called style. Even more in contrast are the sensitive, stylish operators of the genus Willie Shoemaker, who win even the close ones without seeming...
Should the U.S. scrap its farm support program and "get clear out of farming"? In December, Farm Journal (circ.3,400,000) put the question to its readers, this week reported an amazing finding: half the farmers say yes. The tally for the first 4,000 farmers responding...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...