Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against U.S. landings on Leyte, the Japanese had prepared a plan known as SHO-1, aimed at bringing "general decisive battle." SHO1 called for a pincers movement against the U.S. landing forces in Leyte Gulf. The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral...
This idea drew support from John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, who said the suggestion "at first glance has most interesting possibilities." Conway said the system would cut down paid labor behind the steam tables, an item he thought took a big chunk from the Dining Halls' budget...
Brazil's booming industrial center of Sâo Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo...
...Powerhouse Purdue of the lordly Big Ten huffed and puffed against unexpectedly rugged U.C.L.A., rolled up 203 yards on the ground v. U.C.L.A.'s paltry 79, but could not get up enough sustained steam to score, had to settle...
Telling Statistics. The report nonetheless underscored some telling statistics. Mitchell reported that the 20 largest steel companies earned less on their invested capital (12.8%) than the nation's 25 biggest industrial firms (14.7%) in booming 1955-57, which tended to take some of the steam out of the union's talk about huge steel profits in 1959's exceptional first half. On the other side, the report answered industry's contention that a wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs...