Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot at the white kids"). The city official, far more impressed by Faubus' political power than by the "evidence," signed a statement supporting Faubus...
Strauss had proposed a Defense Ministry lieutenant colonel for promotion. Brigadier General Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand, a 52-year-old member of the clannish former German General Staff, working in the personnel section, objected so strongly in writing to the colonel's lack of combat distinction in World War II that Strauss ordered the general to report to him immediately in full-dress uniform. Müller-Hillebrand obeyed, but when he had waited 30 minutes outside Strauss's office, he stalked out declaring: "This has not happened in my entire military career. If the Minister wants...
...headlines were wrong and Hollister was right. A significant new policy has been worked out by the U.S. to back the promotion of free enterprise with dollars. Whereas previous foreign-aid bills only paid lip service to free enterprise, the latest foreign-aid legislation contains a whole new section setting up a Development Loan Fund for the express purpose of "encouraging competitive free enterprise" abroad. For the first time the U.S. Government is authorized to make loans directly to foreign businessmen. The Administration and such businessmen as Clarence Randall, former chairman of Inland Steel, and Benjamin Fairless, former president...
...nearly finished. Kaiser Engineers Division was hired by Tata to handle construction and engineering (since Jamsetj Tata's time the company has traditionally looked to the U.S. for technicians), assembled a work force of 14,000 Indians who put in 18 or more hours a day. The new section will pour steel next summer...
...total solution must include the expansion of the University's own facilities, however. This year the undergraduate section of the Business School lot has been expanded by 50 per cent, and can handle 144 more cars. And the Andover lot has been increased by more spaces than were lost to the new electron accelerator in the same area...