Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this has required a heavy investment in money and in Eastland's time. The plantation's equipment includes 27 tractors, one caterpillar, 25 cotton trailers, 15 four-row plowing units and a vast assortment of plows, combines, trucks, balers, pickers, etc. Eastland's plantation with its equipment is worth more than a million dollars and grosses about half a million a year in sales. Working the 4,500 acres directly under the plantation manager-520 acres are worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material...
Curtice is equally vehement in his belief that spinning off two divisions would benefit neither the consumer nor the competition. If Oldsmobile, for example, were separated from G.M., it would automatically be shut off from the vast pool of centralized engineers, research, styling and production-line know-how that have pushed G.M. ahead. Its cars would soon be out of date and would cost more. Spun off from G.M., Olds would have little hope of competing with the rest of the industry...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...
...entire metropolitan center. This is of course a Babylon, whose 'sins' invite the denunciations of any 'prophet.' But the question is whether the prophet is able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon, or to appreciate the virtues of such a vast conglomerate community in which all peoples and racial stocks live in comparative brotherhood...
Another big trouble is the feast-or-famine nature of aviation. While the current long-range procurement policy is a vast improvement over previous policy, airmen still remember what happened after World War II. North American, for example, went from a profit of $14 million in 1945 to a $12 million operating loss in 1947. Then it had to crank up to high speed again to produce F-86 Sabre jets for Korea...