Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salt from Philadelphia, who served as round-the-world navigator on his father's schooner and as a lieutenant commander in World War II, Baker still finds that every cover story requires a different trim of the sails. The main job in his Grace Kelly cover was to catch the cool, white-gloved elegance of a new kind of Hollywood star. With André Malraux it was to define the place of an elusive literary and political figure in the complicated world of contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives...
...GUARANTEED LOANS are being mapped by CAB for feeder airlines to help them buy needed new planes that will trim heavy maintenance costs, boost profits and cut subsidies...
...satellites were hit hardest where it hurts most: in coal production, the key to the whole area's economy. A drop in coal output forced Poland to close plants and trim rail schedules, and the Poles have sharply reduced coal exports to satellite neighbors to give priority to their own ailing economy. Because of the cutback in Polish coal, East Germany's vital metalworking industry has been seriously crippled. "The coal problem." said the party organ Neues Dentschland last month, "is a question of our entire people's economy." Industrial production may have to be curtailed...
Though the reorganization will trim the strength of airborne divisions by one-third, and of infantry divisions by almost one-fifth, the Pentagon emphasized two points: 1) the plan does not lower the overall strength of the Army itself, or rule out future draft calls; 2) the changeover is no experiment in disarmament. Then, for old soldiers, a humane third point was added: history-rich regimental colors and numbers will somehow be preserved even in the pentomic...
WHEAT PRICES will rise this year, after recent downtrend. Soil bank is expected to take 15 million acres out of use, help trim 150 million bu. to 200 million bu. off 1956 crop of some 990 million bu., reduce surplus for first time since Korean war. Exports are also up 100% over last year because of loosened Government controls on shipments, U.S. aid to foreign buyers, wheat shortage in Europe...