Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weighed Representative Robert Blodgett's proposed ten-year ban on new government buildings in Juneau, the state capital. "I wouldn't want them to get carried away with illusions of grandeur," Blodgett explained. But Blodgett himself got carried away in speaking for his bill to set aside 5,000,000 acres of land to provide income for the University of Alaska. "Why, some day," he exclaimed, "we could have the greatest university in the country...
Late one night last week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket...
When the senate rejected his bond-issue plan, Soapy's only hope for getting enough money to meet state payrolls in late April and beyond was to ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams...
...Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of the city, killed 143,000 people and ruined many of Tokyo's upper and middle classes. In its aftermath, the educated daughters of these families (education for women dates from the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century) discarded their kimonos, bobbed their hair, donned Western dress and became sales clerks...
...important thing." Rockefeller concedes that his firm is taking a risk, "just as there is a risk anywhere you go." It is a risk the Rockefeller family is prepared to take. The Rockefellers, on their own, are putting $250,000 into several pilot projects in new African nations, have set up offices in Nigeria and Ghana to supervise...