Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of the new plan, there would be no direct student solicitation for Council money, except for special projects. Instead, the University would set up a trust fund, and the interest on the fund would pay for the Council's activities each year...
...recent elections, right-to-work laws went down to defeat in five of the six states where they were proposed. But they are far from a dead issue. Already, unionists are getting set for a drive in Congress to outlaw state laws that forbid the union shop. The arguments over such laws have ranged all the way from the position of Labor Secretary James Mitchell that "they do more harm than good" to the stand of General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, who says his company takes right-to-work laws into consideration as a plus factor when locating new plants...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
...work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from $12,000 to $25.000, plus $500 or so to fit it to whatever machine tool it is to operate...
Japan could claim the most decisive naval victory since Trafalgar, ruled as a major seapower until her sun set in the flaming air-sea action of Leyte Gulf 40 years later. Admiral Rozhestvensky. saved when his officers carried him wounded and semiconscious from a disabled turret before the Suvoroff sank, had no excuses and offered none. On his way back to St. Petersburg for court martial (he was acquitted) and retirement, he said: "No, there was no treason. We just weren't strong enough-and God gave us no luck...