Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...spun off (with Murchison retaining control) when the Trans-Canada pipeline deal shaped up. The pipeline's future seemed so solid to Murchison that he thought it had no place in wildcatting Delhi. Said he: "Canadian Delhi is so conservative we kicked it out of Delhi." Such corporate spin-offs have well profited Murchison and his stockholders. A man who paid $1,000 for 1,000 shares of Southern Union in 1943, and exercised all rights and options since then, would have spent a total of $31,688 (easily borrowed against his holdings). By now, his dividends would have...
...time for "agonizing reappraisal" was at hand. At the Geneva Conference, where the free nations milled in confusion before Soviet Russia and Communist China (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. was caught this week in an spin of defeatism over Indo-China. The immediate reason was that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had failed in his desperate attempts to form an preconference united front. But the real reason was deeper: in both its European and Asian diplomacy, the U.S. had counted postwar France as an great power, and in agonizing reappraisal, the U.S. now knew that this had been...
Russian-born Violinist Spivakovsky learned to balance his repertory by experience. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940 (at the age of 33), he already had 20 years of concert experience. He could spin out the Tchaikovsky Concerto with every Slavic sob intact, and he was the master, in lofty interpretations, of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos as well...
Genevieve. A merry spin in a 1904 Darracq; with John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan (TIME...