Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kinds of photographers is the Board a haven. It is just that, in fact, for those who have never seen the inside of a camera. For this, as for all Boards, you need absolutely no experience whatever; so if you have often expressed a longing to photograph well, to develop, fix, enlarge, engrave, and mount pictures, and to design photography layouts for features, translate this longing into action; of such stuff are great men made...
...Single Pride. His moment of enlightenment came in 1955, when Abubakar journeyed to the U.S. to find out whether what the U.S. had done to develop water transport on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers could be applied to the sand-clogged Niger. One night, as he sat in a Manhattan hotel room, he got to thinking about what he had seen in the U.S. His thoughts as he recalls them: 'In less than 200 years, this great country was welded together by people of so many different backgrounds. They built a mighty nation and had forgotten where they came...
...African standards, is close to self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps...
Progress Abroad. Tabler runs into more resistance to new ideas among U.S. building inspectors than European. "Europeans are eager to accept any new idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained...
...visitors' followed. After a slap shot frota a , a wild seramble in front of would develop with the whole Crimson team swinging for a tally, each time smothered the puck. Suddenly the pack was to the Harvard sad, where Bland saved with no trouble. The rebound, however, rolled danger, around in front of the Cage before the Crimson could clear...