Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution, says Knox, is to make the poorhouses richer by selling them what they most need: U.S. know-how. Last week, as a starter in his new job, Knox made just such a deal with China, one of the poorest of the world's poorhouses...
...Afghanistan, desperately in need of outside supplies, was finally made eligible for Lend-Lease. A U.S. official went to Kabul to ask the Afghans what they needed most. They said "everything." He suggested medicines as a starter. The Afghan committee withdrew with a drug catalogue, returned next day with a list that began: " 1) Medicine to ease a weary heart...
...starter, Dr. De Kock & Co. plan to drive every last wild animal in a 400-square-mile area - kudu, wildebeests, wart hogs, hyenas, zebras, duikers, baboons, storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
...Probable starter for the Crimson will be Samborski's summer work-horse, Vince Moravec. Vince has started four contests this summer and has won three of them...
Everyday exhibited seven pieces from Wright's set. Its sturdiness won out against butter-fingered dishwashers; it was inexpensive - a 20-piece "starter set" sold for about $6; it "put away" compactly-cups could be piled on each other without tumbling over; the solid colors were interchangeable. Nearly fourteen million pieces have been sold since 1939, at the rate (since 1943) of $1.5 millions worth a year...