Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water-filled pit in Kent, England last week, a workman felt his scoop hit an obstacle. He gave it an extra pull, and near fainted from fright: up came a 1,100-lb. bomb, a German dud from World War II. Within minutes, the Royal Engineers' Bomb Disposal Unit at Horsham, Sussex was racing to the rescue. A few hours later, all was clear again. The bomb was expertly defused and trucked off to a bomb graveyard where the explosive filling could be steamed out in safety -at least for Kent's homeowners...
...Gaulle's first major steps towards putting France's house in order last December was stabilizing the franc at 493.7 to the dollar through a devaluation of 17.5%. The stabilization worked, but the low esteem of the franc as a unit of foreign exchange still rankled. This week the French Treasury put into effect Operation Le Franc Lourd (the heavy franc): by striking two zeros off all existing currency, the outside-France value of the franc jumped 100 times, to nearly five-to-the-dollar. The franc thus again became a respectable neighbor of the British shilling...
Blough guided Big Steel through a major reorganization to keep it up with the times. He transformed the corporation from a sprawling holding company with dozens of subsidiary corporations into an integrated corporate unit, spun off businesses, e.g., shipping, that did not fit into the company's basic pattern. To get Big Steel on a lean, efficient basis, he vigorously pushed a standard-cost system for evaluating every job in the company. He increased the company's incentive system until it now covers 75% of all employees. (Blough, whose salary is $265,000 a year, also picked...
Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able account of the deadly bushfighter who made his commandolike Rangers the most feared unit in the French and Indian...
Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able biography of the deadly bushfighter who made his commando-like Rangers the most feared unit in the French and Indian War, only to die years later in undeserved disgrace...