Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime financial reporter, first went to work for Young as financial consultant to Alleghany, helped plan the strategy that won his boss the Central. But barely was the Central bagged before the two fell out. According to Young, Phillips cockily anticipated a prize plum in the new Central setup; when Young instead offered to get him a partnership in a brokerage house, Phillips stalked out. Phillips, however, says he resigned because he considered Young's use of Alleghany funds in the Central fight to be "improper," although he apparently did not reach this decision until after they quarreled...
...waves do scatter, and special apparatus has been developed for the armed services to take advantage of the scattering. Some of the equipment is spectacular (see cut). Extra-powerful transmitters must be used, and two large receiving antennas placed well apart give better results than one. With the proper setup VHF has been transmitted dependably more than 1,000 miles. UHF, the wave band suitable for TV, is good for 300 miles...
...Truman Administration's security program was the subject of a bitter campaign battle in 1952. When President Eisenhower took office, he immediately ordered that Federal loyalty programs be strengthened, empowering individual Department and Agency heads to remove subversives from Government service. Despite this revision of the security setup, the loyalty of government workers remains a controversial issue...
Proof of this came last week, when Eisenhower, Vice-President Nixon, and Speaker Sam Rayburn appointed a twelve man, bi-partisan commission to study the entire Federal security setup. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately protested that the Commission was loaded with members who wanted little change in the existing system...
Last January energetic French High Commissioner Roland Pré instituted some reforms of his own. Anxious to cut down the top-heavy local administrative setup in the Cameroons, he began looking for likely natives to serve in local municipal offices. When he canvassed the natives of Foumban on their choice for mayor, the answer was a landslide for Sultan Seydou...