Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first few days after the convention, it appeared that DeSapio had won the battle, but might very well have lost the election. Keating and Rockefeller immediately assailed Hogan as the tool of Tammany; the liberal wing of the Democratic Party expressed resentment; the Liberal Party (whose 200,000 votes had been decisive in electing Harriman in 1954) endorsed Hogan only reluctantly and refused to support Crotty...
...sales every month for the last four months, expects its total 1958 sales to top 1957's. ¶Westinghouse in June, July and August increased its sales of refrigerators, freezers, electric ranges and food disposers by 5% over last year. Westinghouse invested $16 million this year to tool a new line of major appliances...
...Weather Bureau believes that its tracer balloons proved successful on the first try. will become an important tool for studying hurricanes. Later models will be fancier, with instruments to measure pressure, temperature and humidity in the gale-ringed eyes of the storms...
...Machine-tool orders climbed to $23 million in August, v. $21.9 million in July. Appliances were selling at a good clip; manufacturers' sales of refrigerators, freezers, electric ranges and water heaters topped August 1957. Conducting interviews in twelve key fields, the American Management Association found almost all the executives expected 1959 to be a good year, looked for "a steady recovery at a tapering rate...
...actual trick-taking value of a hand depends on how the other cards lie, the bridge player must strive to 1) infer the contents of the unseen hands, and 2) convey the picture of his own hand to his partner. In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool-but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made not as the player...