Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stranger to Eisenhower Washington, Johnson is an old soapsuds acquaintance of his new boss, met Procter & Gamble's McElroy when McElroy approached G.E. to learn about possible markets for his new detergent products. Like McElroy, Johnson has a special flair for organization. He was an architect of the 1951 decentralization plan under which G.E.'s 280,000 employees and 95 separate divisions were spread under 49 managers. He also planned the corporation's biggest venture into consolidation, a 942-acre appliance-making center at Louisville...
...advancing Russian and U.S. armies, Von Braun and most of his tried, tested rocket team decided to go with the West. They fueled trucks with rocket alcohol and headed south. Von Braun had printed official-looking stickers with the mysterious letters VZBV-standing for some fictional sort of "Special Project Disposition"-which cleared all roadblocks for them. During the trip Von Braun's driver fell asleep at the wheel, the car crashed, Von Braun's left arm was broken and his face gashed (he still has a scar above his lip). Von Braun and Dornberger stayed three weeks...
...help the F.L.N., Algeria's rebels will turn to Cairo and the Soviet Union. He is tied to France by education and training, and his wife is French. When Bourguiba won his country's independence two years ago, he pledged himself and his new country to maintain "special links" with France, still looks to it for economic help. He has curbed the power of his anti-French Interior Minister, Taieb Mehri, and fired his Minister of Youth and Sports, Azouz Rebai, for using his position to inflame Tunisian youth. He has repeatedly ignored Communist overtures, and only accepted...
Revolving Fund. And he did. Over the years, Stengle had managed to take over almost complete control of his schools' finances. He would draw checks on a special revolving "high school fund" by forging the name of the school board's secretary as cosigner. Instead of official checks with their serial numbers, he used personal blank checks, took the added precaution of making them out to cash. At the end of the month, he counted up the money he had stolen, drew a check for that amount on the school district's tax fund by forging...
...Last year 14 states did not require even a single course in science or mathematics for a high school diploma. While 27 states maintain special supervisors for physical education, and all 48 have supervisors for home economics, agriculture and "distributive trades," only two states employ a mathematics supervisor, and only six have supervisors for science...