Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission." That the U.S. industrial colossus could be so paralyzed is incredible but, unfortunately, true. Confronted with the overwhelming magnitude of the fallout hazard, the Federal Civil Defense Administration must feel that it has been admitted to the Anteroom to Hell. Thus it is a good time for a thorough housecleaning in the civil defense establishment. An inventory should be made to see what measures are in the hopeless or useless category...
Almost Real. Meticulously, Novelist Basso examines the town's tribal customs, ancestor worship and social strata on the other side of the railroad tracks. New Orleans-born "Ham" Basso has done a thorough job of reconstruction. His town is like one of those skillfully done scale models seen in Christmas shop windows, of which people exclaim: "My, it almost looks real!" The trouble is that nothing very interesting or moving happens in the town. There is neither humor nor tragedy in Pompey's rather empty Head-not even a good hangover...
...Governor of Maryland last fall,* his Republican opponents raised quite an unpleasant fuss about one aspect of his career: his 18 years as president of the University of Maryland. As most Maryland voters knew, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools had recently completed a thorough examination of the university, and rumor had it that its confidential report was far from favorable. Last week, after keeping it under wraps for months, the university finally let the secret out. The association's haymaker: unless Byrd's successor, Wilson Elkins, straightens out his campus by April...
...Justice Department, noted that it had specifically exempted from its decision the two Eastman products covered by the consent decree. To many a businessman, the trustbusters' inability to agree among themselves was the best proof that the entire field of Fair-Trade pricing and enforcement needed a thorough reappraisal...
...proposal in its present form calls for the sending of Delhi students into five rural villages for the four-fold purpose of 1) making a thorough survey of each town's social and economic needs, 2) teaching adults to read and write, 3) helping and supervising village construction work, and 4) loading community recreational activities...