Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such satisfaction over the orders that few people paused to consider why the Reds had placed them. In the past the Iron Curtain nations were wheat exporters themselves. The surprisingly big Soviet order for Canadian wheat, which is to be delivered to Siberia, was supposedly placed in order to spare the Russians the trouble of rail-hauling grain from the Ukraine. But if that were the case, there should be surplus grain on hand in western Russia for satellite Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...whip-thin, irascible old (80) Canadian named Herman Smith Johannsen. Convinced that his country's youngsters are going to pot sitting in front of their television sets, "Jack Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen...
...wasp's nest of Air Defense Command interceptors (practicing supersonic passes at the outbound planes in carefully planned defense exercises), air refueling tankers far-flung in Atlantic and Pacific bases, air traffic controllers, air detection and warning networks, air-sea rescue squadrons, and MATS units hauling spare parts, supplies and technicians...
Tuned Up, Not Tricked Up. Spectators were far more impressed by the achievement of Dodge's Chief Test Driver Danny Eames, 37. With only one mechanic to help him, and working only with tools and spare parts available in a regular Daytona Dodge agency, Danny prepared his D-500-1 himself. The result was truly a stock car, tuned for the last ounce of performance, but not tricked up. A man could buy the duplicate anywhere Dodges are sold. When Danny skittered into the speed trap, his deep-treaded stockroom tires bounced over the ridged wet sand...
Like a fraternity pledge on initiation day, President Arthur M. Loew of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marched warily into his first annual meeting last week after barely two months in the job. He found his stockholders in no mood to spare the paddles. What made them mad was Loew's earnings, down $1,265,578 in fiscal 1955 from 1954's $6,577,311, and down again in 1956's first fiscal quarter to a mere $248,161, or 5? a share...