Word: strengthen
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...took on a bigger job. After four years of dickering, he signed an agreement to merge Capital with Northwest Airlines and form the biggest (8,089 route miles) U.S. domestic airline system. It is the latest of a series of mergers,* now pending CAB action, designed to strengthen U.S. airlines. If the deal is approved, as expected, Carmichael will become president and operations boss of the new line. Northwest's President Croil Hunter, 58, will become board chairman...
...Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting position of the Soviet bloc. On any issue requiring two-thirds majority, every vote counts...
Dave Hedberg continues as the Crimson's top sprinter, but has been switched several times this year to strengthen the 220. For the 50 Ulen has been substituting footballer John McNamara for Hedberg. In competition so far this year McNamara's specialty seems to be making one or two false starts, looking extremely sheepish and apologetic when called back, and then reeling off fine times to win the short race. Alternate sprinters are Captain Bob Stroud, Ron Husbach, and Phil Pratt, who team with either Hedberg or McNamara to form a strong relay quartet...
...cannot prophesy the future," he said, "but I think that Socialism will some day come to the United States. When it does, I think it will strengthen the progressive and the peace movement here...
Under the rescue plan announced by Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball last week, Martin will get up to $32 million from RFC, Eastern, TWA and a group of banks-notably Manhattan's Chase and Pittsburgh's Mellon. The banks will "bring in new top personnel to strengthen the company's management." But other planemakers thought that "strengthening," whatever that means, might not be enough. What Martin needed, they thought, was a new management...