Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their Communist masters. By boosting Hungary's investment in agriculture and by funneling two-thirds of the funds straight into the collective farms, Communist Boss Janos Kadar has managed to bring roughly 17% of Hungary's land and peasants once more under collectivization. But it is slow going, and Hungary remains, after Poland, the most "hesitant" Soviet-bloc country in socializing its agriculture...
When Tom was swinging a pick as a sewer laborer during the Depression, the gauze pad so irritated the delicate membrane of his rosette that he had to have an operation. Recovery was slow, and Tom had to go on relief. Up to that time he had not let doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would...
...varsity hockey team opens an important wekend of competition tonight against once-defeated B.C. at the McHugh Forum, in the second of four games scheduled with the Eagles this winter. After taking on Cornell at Watson Rink Saturday night, the sextet will try to slow down the high-scoring Russian amateur squad at Boston Garden Monday...
VistaVision. To some listeners, Scherchen's musical concepts seem to have an oppressively Teutonic solemnity, partially because he sometimes favors slow tempi. But in large works, such as Berlioz' Requiem Mass, he succeeds in conveying a stunning sense of power. His recent recording (for Westminster) of the Requiem has a VistaVisioned breadth that probably no other conductor could bring to it. Yet Scherchen also has remarkable ability to draw forth individual strands, delineating them in unforgettable detail...
Standard was then a slow-moving manufacturer of milk-bottle tops. Chandler assembled an able young management team, decided to point the company toward "convenience" living and disposable paper products. With a five-year growth map of what the market wanted, Chandler set about buying complementary companies, took in Sterling Products for its paper plates in 1956, Modern Packages for its flexible packaging material. In 1957 he added four box and label makers, last summer merged the Johnston Foil Mfg. Co., which laminated foil to paper. This year Chandler got his biggest acquisition: Eastern Corp. (1957 sales: $25 million), which...