Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President did, however, tell Memphis officials that he would be more than happy if, as an alternative to Dixon-Yates, the city decided to build its own steam plant. He was told that Memphis could not finance such an operation. But as the emotional war against Dixon-Yates wore on, the idea of a Memphis-built plant began to seem more appealing...
...Pericles. Human relations -the art of getting along with the people who work beside you and with those who live thousands of miles away-does not change . . . But the age of nuclear energy, in its industrial and economic aspects, will likely bear no more resemblance to the age of steam than a jet-powered plane to an old-fashioned box kite...
...crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let's not cut the puppy's tail off an inch at a time...
...line. The line would pick up Dixon-Yates power at the middle of the Mississippi River and feed it into the TVA system at Memphis, for retransmission to the Atomic Energy Commission. Instead, the House Committee voted that the money should be spent to start a $90 million TVA steam-generating plant at Fulton, Tenn., which would fill AEC's extra need for power...
...Still airsick from his flight to England, Laszlo Tabori, 24, ex-private in the Hungarian army, became the third man in history to crack the four-minute mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...