Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Pakistan's air bases, particularly the two great British-built airfields near Karachi, the U.S. Air Force would be within jet-bomber range of the Karaganda-Alma Ata refuge of Soviet industry, far beyond the Ural Mountains. ¶ A pact between the U.S. and Pakistan might spur other Moslem nations to join the long-stalled Middle East Defense Organization, and might even serve as its nucleus...
...segregation, Morris Mitchell's topic for this Sunday. The Tea Committee attracts the young ladies, proud that the Center's tea is reputed the best in the Northeast, and knowing too that males can be inveigled to help wash the dishes. S.O.M.E. Committee (Scouting, Outing, Meeting, and Eating) organizes spur-of-the-moment outings, like hiking in Vermont or clambakes at Crane's Beach...
...spur atom-bomb protection for key industries, the Government will soon allow companies tax writeoffs on 100% of the cost of building bomb shelters and shoring up plant structures to withstand atom bombing. Slated for the first certificate: Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., biggest U.S. machine-tool builder...
...could find a permanent peacetime method to spur industry to build new plants and modernize old ones-thus achieving the higher productivity which brings down prices and raises real wages-the consumer would benefit enormously. The U.S. has achieved such expansion in wartime through the use of "accelerated amortization," otherwise known as the "quick tax write-off." This permits the writing off of defense-essential plants and equipment in five years instead of the 20 normally required by the Internal Revenue Bureau. In World War I, this practice spurred the building of $650 million in new facilities; in World...
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was a soldier of the old U.S. Army. A lean, bowlegged cavalryman, he spent his happiest days in the hard-riding, spur and saber atmosphere of the vanishing Army posts of the West. In an age that produced Army men of many talents-generals who could double as diplomats, showmen, orators or businessmen-"Skinny" Wainwright, a fine horseman,* a crack shot and an all-round good officer, was never anything but a soldier. He had no conspicuous hobbies, outstanding social virtues or noteworthy vices. But his men believed in him, and they followed him to the limit...