Word: segments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since he joined Continental in 1950, he has used the lessons of his military engineer's career to triple Continental's sales (to $1.1 billion) and earnings (to $41 million), drive it from second place, well behind American Can, into...
Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...large segment of U.S. Protestantism is on the move this week-into a 19-story, $20 million Interchurch Center overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan's culture-studded Morningside Heights...
While every broad segment is expanding, the expansion is relatively slow in manufacturing (total number of firms up only 3% over 1951), faster in transportation, communications and other public utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food and related stores by 14%, but with many more new products to be distributed there has been an 18% expansion in the number of wholesaling concerns. Since 1951, old-fashioned general merchandise stores have declined 9%. But with more and more people on the go, restaurants are up 4%, automotive...
...literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...