Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this changed attitude is not all on the European side. A month before, a terrorist was spotted before he could explode a bomb in a crowded square; he fled with a mob in hot pursuit, and was caught and nearly killed as people banged his skull against a wall. Remarkably, most of the mob were Moslems...
Tokyo announced that Wall Street Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey will be retained for a year to help Japan boost its exports and ride herd on Japan's commercial interests in the U.S. Fee (including Dewey's anticipated expense account): $200,000. But someone had goofed. Next day, after Dewey's office issued a firm "no comment," Japan's government allowed that the deal is not sealed as yet. Premature publicity may have doomed...
...platter. Sticking up from the center is a cylindrical housing for a 435-h.p. engine and a four-bladed fan. Air from the fan is blown down through two ring-shaped ducts under the rim of the hull, and emerges in jets that point inward, forming a kind of wall. Inside this wall a cushion of air builds up and lifts the Hovercraft off the surface. Forward propulsion is obtained by diverting part of the air flow through horizontal ducts (see diagram...
...with modern interiors. Much as the great stone baronial halls of the past needed the warmth and texture of wool, modern interiors tend to be cold and overly machined in appearance. Today's nomads, moving from one apartment to the next, are also likely to appreciate a major wall covering that can be rolled up like a rug, transported easily from one place to the next...
...potential ally. Helm became vice president in 1929, first vice president in 1946, president in 1947, finally took over as chairman in 1956, when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts the bank's rising deposits on his office wall. In 1954 he saw an opportunity to grow in one jump. He urged Chairman Jackson to buy out the century-old Corn Exchange Bank, which had 78 branches and $774 million in deposits, and paid a premium of $25 a share to get the Corn Exchange stock. The price proved right...