Word: running
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in staying a Senator long. "I have never been a candidate for elective office," he explained, "and this appointment doesn't change my mind on that." At the end of next year, when his term ends, Senator Darby will bow out and let Governor Carlson run...
...when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked...
Soon after that, President Juan Perón called Saadi to the Casa Rosada and told him that he had been chosen as the strongest possible Peronista candidate to run for governor of Catamarca province...
...impurities in the uranium, for instance, will certainly cause trouble long before the action is complete. But the contaminated uranium could be purified and "recycled." The AEC did not say so, but there is a possibility that when the breeding process has been refined, the uranium can be run through the reactor again & again until essentially all of it has been turned into energy. The world might thus have a practically inexhaustible source of nuclear fuel...
Free Rein. Hilton runs his sprawling empire with the help of a crack team which includes Executive Vice President Robert P. Williford, 49, who started as a desk clerk in 1931; Vice President James B. ("J.B.") Herndon Jr., 50, who was the first manager of the Albuquerque Hilton; Vice President Spearl ("Red") Ellison, 36, who started as a $5-a-month bellhop; Vice President Joseph P. Binns, 43, a relative newcomer to the corporation, who managed the Stevens before Hilton took over. Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first...