Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-base mobilization for any new national emergency. The government plant that is closed down will remain intact, with all machine tools left in place. Private plants may be reconverted to civilian production, but the Army will buy or lease land near some of them, and build warehouses to store and maintain the machine tools until needed again...
Seattle had been well primed for this week's opening, with 22 billboards, 500 posters in store windows, and 6,000 letters for schoolchildren to take home to their parents. Ten galleries of the museum's 13 were emptied and redecorated to contain the exhibition. Staff members erected a facsimile of a Japanese shrine on the lawn out front, found a Japanese orchestra to play on the night of the opening. Expecting the biggest crowds since the museum's opening 20 years ago, Director Richard Fuller explained: "We have had to go whole hog, but having...
...business sessions, the president and founder of the International Moslem Society, Abdallah Igram, 30, a grocery-store operator from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led delegates through a simple agenda. One executive board decision: to pay the cost of special identification tags for American Moslems in military service which will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform...
...engines was demonstrated by Hydramotive, Inc. of Cleveland. The company is already making one model for starting diesel engines up to 1,200 h.p. ($1,000), another for starting diesel and gasoline engines up to 400 h.p. ($260), plans to begin production soon on an automotive model (which would store up pressure while the engine was running) and which would be priced competitively with conventional starters...
Stylish Stout. In San Gabriel, Calif., police wondered why 230-lb. Alberta Patoux always seemed either fatter or thinner, arrested her inside a store, found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes stowed in her tent-size bloomers...