Word: although
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bethlehem Steel from contracting scrap-recovery operations at the Johnstown, Pa. plant to an outside firm, although the contractor's operations, using specialized machinery, were far more efficient than the recovery methods Bethlehem had been using...
...Pennsylvania's A. M. Byers Co. from setting up a centralized maintenance system, although the arbitrator himself conceded that the old decentralized system was inefficient and costly. ¶A Republic Steel plant at Gadsden, Ala. from reducing the ratio of boilermakers' helpers to boilermakers, although methods and equipment had changed so drastically over the years that helpers were idle much of the time...
...Although Johnson knew very well that many of his turn-away audiences would come out to see a stuffed whale or Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some wearing "Like That Lyndon" buttons. As the formation of a local "Johnson for President" club was announced to an obbligato of rebel yells, Lyndon, who refuses to announce that he is a candidate, stood at the sidelines, beaming...
...Although the pinball machines attract considerable attention, local restaurant owners discount the effect their removal would have. "The pinball machines form a small percentage of our business," stated Henry Baumann, owner of Elsie's. "The boys use them to relax. They are the ones who would complain if the machines were removed...
...Although endorsed as a course for concentration, one member of the Committee called Wald's proposal, "one of the few real General Education courses in the Natural Sciences...