Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chairman of C.E.D., Folsom will campaign for an ever-expanding U.S. economy. Explained he last week: "We want to find a way to continue to raise real wages, to increase American productivity and make more of these products available to workmen for their wages...
...arrived in King William Land, near the Magnetic Pole, with a portable altar and a bare minimum of supplies. Because of his rust-colored beard the Netsilik Eskimos called him Kai-i-o (The Red One); they were fascinated by his long black cassock, and asked whether they could make a tent...
...Mill in New Hampshire for $1,750,000 in 1943. Only a month before Textron bought the company, Little admitted, his family trust, which had been buying Suncook stock since 1933, had bought an additional 2,000 shares. Asked Pomerantz: Didn't Little in one capacity or another make more than $600,000 profit? Answered Little: "I know it was substantial." It was also conceded that Little's family trust made a substantial profit as exclusive export agent for Textron, and that Textron had failed to inform its stockholders of the relationship...
...minister to France, he spent a day in an Italian dairy learning how to make Parmesan cheese. His design of a more efficient moldboard for a plow won a gold medal from a French agricultural society. His library at Charlottesville, Va., which was the finest private library in the U.S., was bought by the Government to restock the gutted Library of Congress, burned by the British...
...Pacific to observe the transit of the planet Venus, thus collect data to help astronomers calculate the distance between the earth and the sun. But in fact, the Endeavour's cruise was a matter of empire. The French had just lost Canada and, with an urge to make up for it somehow, were searching for the great new continent that was still believed to lie in the South Pacific between New Zealand and South America. If there was such a continent, the British Admiralty wanted to find it first. So Captain Cook searched the South Pacific looking...