Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions about $104,973 in cash withdrawals from his Boston Port Development Co. and East Boston...
...Common Market provision to raise import quotas in each category to at least 3% of a nation's home production (which would allow a lot more German Volkswagens than British Hillman Minxes into France). To the British charge of discrimination, the French replied that naturally there should be special club privileges for those who paid their dues...
...daring gamble, he hired four experts, put them to work in Los Angeles. Using a special fuel-injection system, they developed 361 h.p. in a big (5.5 liters) Chevrolet engine. Double-size drum brakes were another innovation. The result was the Scarab-a low, shovel-nosed racer that quickly won its spurs by outrunning the long-dominant Ferraris, Maseratis and Jaguars produced in Europe...
...week. Beginning with a walkout of 400 workers at the main Dodge plant, the stoppage soon idled 41,440 workers as parts shortages halted production in the major Chrysler plants. The relief period of five minutes an hour (in addition to regular relief periods) was first arranged because of special fatigue problems, such as extraordinary heat, though the company claimed that technological improvements later eliminated the problems. So that no actual output would be lost, the United Auto Workers agreed to speed up the line. But in its belt tightening this year, Chrysler went in heavily for time studies, decided...
...until he crashed and died amid fire and explosion in the side of the carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo announced the launching of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, named for the "divine wind" that had saved Japan from Mongol invasion in 1281. The 1944 corps was Japan's effort to whistle up an equally effective wind. It failed, but bloodily; with an expenditure of 1,228 planes and pilots, the Japanese sank 34 U.S. ships...