Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest task Johnson had set himself a commendable set of rules: don't spend time looking for headlines, try to avoid politics, avoid second-guessing war strategy, be constructive and impartial. As a starter, the seven-man Johnson subcommittee planned to survey Alaskan defenses, examine weapons and manpower needs and investigate foreign monopolies of strategic U.S. defense materials...
Since all this is only a starter in the nation's five-year economic development program, Australia plans to ask the World Bank for an additional $150 million when the current loan is spent...
...20th Century-Fox) is a Negro-problem picture. A late starter-the first of its kind came out a year ago-it is good enough to overcome that handicap. It may not be the best of its lot, but it is undoubtedly the most outspoken and pertinent. Its message flows straight out of the action, and as a piece of entertainment it is a tense, explosive melodrama...
...records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations as freewheeling (1930) and automatic transmission (1940s...
Booby Trap. In Buffalo, John Sheer was arrested when he tried to drive away with a police car, pushed the siren button instead of the starter...