Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunity instead of salvage. Since crude oil was cheap and abundant, he ordered Petrofina to forget production, buy its oil from other companies and concentrate on expanding its sales outlets. Petrofina expanded by buying up existing chains (such as British Cities Service), or by starting from scratch as in Canada, where 1,700 stations have been opened since...
...advanced technology of everyone else." Under Stratos, who is a son of one of the founders and son-in-law of the other, P.-P. has become so advanced that it now has technology of its own to pass on. The company's experience of starting from scratch helped it win a $20 million contract from the Sudanese government to direct the erection of a now completed textile complex at Khartoum. P.-P. also has a $300,000-a-year contract until 1971 to supervise the operation of the plant and train Sudanese in textile making...
...Union of Bavaria, whose chairman is none other than Franz Joseph Strauss. Adenauer could not fire his Defense Minister outright. Instead the Old Man proposed that all the other Cabinet ministers follow the Free Democrats' example and resign. That way. the Chancellor could build a new Cabinet from scratch, with a new Defense Minister...
...m.p.h. and its rockets are cut off. Split seconds later, a pair of iss-mm. howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then the sled itself splashes to a stop in a trough of water...
...capital resources and a technically innocent labor force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...