Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swift approval for the project came from members of the Varsity Club and the baseball, team, but the Alumni Bulletin editorially opposed the building of a new clubhouse and a CRIMSON poll of students on the controversy showed 82 per cent in opposition to the project...
...During all this time, the price of beef on the hoof was virtually unchanged. The explanation, as everyone expected, was simple. The packers and retailers had jacked up prices when the Korean war touched off a burst of buying, then cut them when housewives balked at the increase. Explained Swift & Co. Vice President Paul C. Smith: "In the meat business you have to take advantage of any increased demand by the raising of your price...
...money. They gave Taipei, Formosa's capital, a government building which would do credit to most British colonies, developed deepwater ports at Keelung and Kaohsiung. Throughout the island Japanese engineers built 2,463 miles of railway, 11,300 miles of good road. They harnessed Formosa's short, swift-flowing rivers, built a large 300,000-kilowatt hydroelectric power station at Jihyuehu (Sun-Moon Lake). For other power sources, they worked Formosa's coal deposits, believed to total 400 million metric tons, and exploited her oil, refining it at the rate of 5,000 gallons of gasoline...
...Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...
...military orders placed since the start of the Korean war totaled more than $7 billion. In most cases they had flowed out to industry smoothly; and industry, in turn, had hustled out some of the new equipment so fast it was already at the front. One reason for the swift flow was that most of the early orders had been for equipment already in production (e.g., trucks and jeeps) or for equipment which the companies had made in World War II. But the chief reason was three years of preparation by the Munitions Board, now bossed by white-thatched...