Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bidder. TVA found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national security? Replied TVA: Total war would probably knock out foreign and U.S. plants alike, thus "early repair or replacement would seem unlikely no matter where the unit was built...
Both Bolivians and foreigners-analyzing the problems of making a workable economic and political unit out of landlocked, geographically fractured, 68% illiterate Bolivia-have for a century been prone, in moments of desperation, to wry variations of the we-give-up suggestion that the country and its headaches should be divided among its neighbors. This rueful jest, repeated by a U.S. official in La Paz and quoted in TIME's March 2 issue, was turned last week into the spark for three days of anti-U.S. violence...
Psychiatrist William B. Terhune, 65, who started the foundation 25 years ago, insists on calling his plant a "unit"-he is equally opposed to such "emotionally charged'' words as sanatorium, hospital and institution. Two miles out of New Canaan, its 50 acres bisected by the Silver Mine River, it looks like any New England resort hotel. It has no barred windows or guards, no locked doors for its capacity (usually filled) of 60 patients. Among its fulltime staff of 75, the seven doctors and four registered nurses never wear white coats. The aim: gracious country living without country...
Whistle at Work. Sheffield Corp., subsidiary of Bendix Aviation Corp., has just unveiled a tool for machining brittle material that combines eight ultrasonic machines into one unit. Gulton Industries of Metuchen, N.J. will bring out a new line of cleaners, standardize the manufacture of its drills and welders to meet demands of the expanding market. Acoustica Associates, Mineola, L.I., last week demonstrated a new "ultrasonic dipstick" that continuously gauges the levels of virtually any liquid...
...unit, the freshman hockey squad was a faster team than any of its opponents, except Colby. This speed resulted because a group of particularly good individual skaters had that saving grace of being able to work well together. Unfortunately, however, because of playing so many teams which didn't really care in the earlier part of the season, the freshmen never learned to play under pressure, as evidenced in its 4-3 overtime loss to Yale...