Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRANSPORTATION. Businesslike operation of the fabulously inefficient government-owned railroads; construction of 6,200 miles of roads; improvement of existing roads. Purchase of 50-odd ships of various tonnages to trim the country's dollar-draining ocean-freight bills...
...meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair to raise money for the Polio Foundation. Trim as he was in college, Governor Hoegh rose to the challenge, proposed a race of from 40 to 100 yards. Michigan's ex-Oarsman Williams was spoiling for a battle-with reservations: "The contest should be in the nature of a decathlon, to include swimming, rowing, wrestling with...
...luncheon the following day, the toastmaster introduced Kubitschek as a man who had made good "in Horatio Alger style." The tag was entirely accurate. Brazil's President-elect, now a trim, well-groomed 54, was reared in poverty. He worked his way through medical school by working nights as a telegrapher, eventually became a fashionable surgeon, later gave up his profitable practice to enter politics. Elected governor of the Texas-sized state of Minas Gerais, he made his name as a builder, with a long list of roads, power plants and schools to his credit. Running for President...
...special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used her special brand of English to thank Met-goers for "all those years I have sing in this...
...short, the farmer was more a political than economic problem. But in an election year no one expected the problem to become smaller or the expense of supporting crops any less. To trim the mounting surpluses, Secretary Benson was mulling over a sheaf of plans for more crop sales abroad, a soil conservation plan that would take land out of production. But a conservation plan would cost an estimated $500 million, and the U.S. already has $7.5 billion tied up in crops. Moreover, the new plans called for more and more restrictions on how farmers tilled their land. Thus...