Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preferred methods of free collective bargaining, even though every appropriate Government service was available to them in support of their efforts." The President pointed out that 500,000 steelworkers and 200,000 workers in allied industries were out of work, and steel shortages would soon cause a fast spread of layoffs in the rest of the economy (see BUSINESS). He did not mention another ominous fact, reported to him by the Pentagon: shortages of special steel had begun to slow down construction work on submarines and missile bases...
...knew he could not change. This led many an outsider to tab him as a yes man without an idea of his own. But when Avery was forced to resign in 1955 and Barr took over, he dazzled the retail industry with the suddenness of his transformation. As he spread his wings, he junked all of Avery's policies, started Ward's on one of the biggest expansion programs in U.S. industry. For the last year, the company has been opening new department stores at a record rate. In the last month alone Barr has overseen the opening...
...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...
Eliot's memorable "when the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table." But such instances of point-to-point similarity are rare. A Westerner can perhaps best understand Boris Pasternak's revolutionary impact on Russian verse within the historic Russian context...
...first half, the varsity won the toss, took the kick, and moved 86 yards for their first score. Chet Boulris, who put on his best performance of the year, Larry Repsher, and Sam Halaby alternately sliced through the reeling Columbia line, which Ravenel masterfully spread out with his slot and split end formations...