Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAIL MERGERS are picking up steam. Illinois Central and Southern Railway are competing for control of the 5,696-mile Louisville & Nashville to strengthen their positions if ICC okays the pending merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard. Southern Pacific asked ICC permission to take over the Western Pacific. One approved merger: Chicago & North Western takeover of the Minneapolis and St. Louis to form the second longest U.S. road (after the Santa...
...scheme based on this premise was presented to the Building Committee (consisting of Professor MacLeish, Professor Levin, Dean Bundy, Dean Sert and Professor Chapman) which gave a green light to go ahead full steam...
...Steam-Heated Doghouse. Becket's first made-to-order design was a far cry from such independence. After graduating from the University of Washington's College of Architecture ('27) and attending Fontainebleau's Ecole des Beaux Arts, he got one of his first commissions in Seattle: building a steam-heated doghouse. Becket later formed a partnership with College Classmate Walt Wurdeman, in 1932 moved to Los Angeles, where the partners made their mark by building houses to order for movie stars. During World War II they switched to mass production, built housing for 50,000 California...
...intractable conflicts with China. These first generation revolutionaries, engaged in the early stages of forced industrialization, seem less humane, and may have less reason to be frightened of nuclear war than the Russians: our present policy gives them incentives towards acquiring, through a reluctant ally or under their own steam, a nuclear "capability." Slim though the chances may be to influence China's internal political life, we must nevertheless seek to end Chin's international quarantine, initiate an exchange of people, ideas and goods, and bring the mainland Chinese into major international negotiations. We must try to change the international...
...enough to last for about 56 days at the current rate of sales and 125,000 more cars than were on hand last year. To move them, automakers are offering bonuses to dealers as high as $250 for each sale, but many automen candidly admit that much of the steam was stolen from the cleanup drive by similar bonus sales held last spring...