Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neat move last week when the Flying Tiger Line, the nation's biggest all-cargo airline, reached into railroading's highest corporate ranks to name Wayne M. Hoffman, 44, the No. 2 man at New York Central, as its new board chairman. In making the switch, Hoffman happily characterized Flying Tiger as a company that is "just beginning to grow...
...aircraft engines, SNECMA, announced that it would exercise its option to build the Pratt & Whitney engine. Seemingly, that was merely a hint that Rolls-Royce had better get cracking on its own model, but behind it lay the unmistakable fact that French and German aircraft companies are itching to switch to the U.S. engine...
...casual observer must sense a precipitous decline in anti-war activity since April's peace march brought several hundred thousand daffodiled protestors to New York City. Throughout April, the demonstration--and Martin Luther King's much publicized switch to active dove --captured headline after headline. But since then the peaceniks have not been in the top of the news at all. Where have all the flowers gone? Has the movement really wilted? Don't believe...
What is sparking the switch to electricity is of course the success of the amplified guitar in the rock-'n'-roll sound. By gimmicking other instruments, manufacturers hope to tune in on the bustling sales that guitars have enjoyed in recent years. In addition, amplified wind instruments, with their ability to project normally dulcet tones and make small ensembles sound larger, may also find markets in the jazz, dance and school-band fields...
Hurried Horse-Trading. The Japanese, for instance, managed a "deft switch in the important grain-aid plan, under which the industrial powers will give 4.5 million tons of grain a year to hungry nations. The plan, in itself a concession to the U.S. and other big grain producers that failed to get guaranteed access to Common Market grain markets during the negotiations, would have required Japan to purchase much of its 5% share of the total grain commitment. Loath to spend cash on that, the Japanese got eleventh-hour permission to substitute a mix of home-grown coarse grains, rice...