Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Corpse. The big change came with express-train momentum, but it was a long time getting started. The plight of the old Cotton South was well illustrated by Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. To a Boston audience in 1889, he described the funeral of a "one-gallus" man in Pickens County, Ga. Said Grady...
...field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
Similar offers went to Caltex of California and Britain's Burmah-Shell. In return the three outfits would promise to train Indian technicians, employ as much Indian labor as possible, and stimulate Indian industries. By 1955 the companies hope to have three oil refineries worth $100 million, producing two to three million tons of refined products a day. A compact advantageous to both parties, it is also welcome as the first major investment of private U.S. capital in India since India won its independence...
...manly pine melting fast. The most dynamic, aggressive and industrialized people in Asia are again preparing themselves for the responsibilities and delights of sovereignty. Already the scene is changing. Trim, alert members of the National Police Reserve (nucleus of the army Japan must inevitably raise to defend herself) train with U.S. carbines, mortars, bazookas and light machine guns. The old zaibatsu (financial cliques) are reviving under new names. Recently a dozen offspring of the old Mitsubishi Commercial Co. combined into four large firms...
...parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just outside. Promptly they extended him a call-provided he would get ordained and married. He obliged, and took over his first parish...