Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...
...European segment ended at Crete, and the U.S. Air Force was called in to jump the arc across the Mediterranean to North Africa. The job was done by Hiran (High Precision Shoran), an electronic surveying system...
...with whom he was running. Consider a few examples: Garner was put on the Democratic ticket with Roosevelt in 1932 as a result of a deal. He fought many of the Roosevelt policies in the Senate and if he had become President he would have destroyed a large segment of the New Deal legislation...
Room for All. By producing a steady stream of such ideas, old-line packaging companies have kept their sales rising. Says an A.M.A. official: "Packaging is a field which has expanded so greatly that new materials have created their own markets instead of shutting out older stand-bys." Every segment of the industry is growing. The value of transparent films produced last year is estimated at $225 million, up from $53 million in 1941. Estimated 1955 output of folding boxboard: 2,750,000 tons, up from...
Trained to a split second, Breen did just what Counsilman expected of him. In Yale's 50-meter "long-course" pool last fortnight he flailed through each 100-meter segment of his 1,500-meter grind in almost identical times-never under 1:13, never over 1:13.9. He touched the finish line in 18:05.9, an eye-bugging 13.1 seconds under the world mark (TIME, April 9) held since 1949 by Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, became the first American ever to hold that long-distance record...