Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coraggio was the type of ship which confronts a pilot with the toughest problems and dangers of all. She was built to carry the biggest load that could squeeze through the ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close...
...Twin Peaks. Under such fundamental forethought, the big philanthropy proliferated around the U.S. and the world. One ten-year massive demonstration by doctors and mobile dispensaries in the South, and hookworm was gone. The Rockefeller Foundation, finally chartered by New York State in 1913 (the U.S. Congress denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever...
...only six good ones, Gates, J.D.R. Jr. and his father did not hesitate to apply the pressure to new pivotal points. Millions of dollars and years of work went into setting up new medical, nursing and public-health schools and improving existing ones, forming around the foundation's twin peaks: the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, "the West Point of Public Health," and the $45 million Peking Union Medical College in China (which by 1938 had been so effective in training Chinese medical students that it was almost 100% Chinese-staffed...
...rumbaing till dawn. He has a concrete dance floor on the roof of his Karachi house, and his record collection includes 1,200 U.S. dance records. When he isn't on the dance floor, Suhrawardy spends most of his time at home in a small bedroom furnished with twin beds. On one he sleeps; on the other, which is piled high with files, telephone books, old magazines and fly swatters, he conducts political negotiations...
Between the Reefs. By boosting the price of money and keeping it scarce, the FRB hopes to steer the economy through the twin reefs of industrial overexpansion and wage-price inflation. The demand for loans is outstripping the supply because record levels of employment, wages, spending, business investment and construction are straining U.S. credit resources more heavily than they have been pressed since...