Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years ago Brown University decided to give John Aiso an honorary Master of Arts degree. He had to decline for lack of time to make the trip to Providence for the university convocation. But one day last month, when Alumnus Aiso and some 90 other old Browns turned up for a dinner at Los Angeles' University Club, Brown President Henry Wriston called a special convocation on the spot. Said Wriston: "The mountain has come to Mohamed." He awarded Aiso his honorary degree: for his war record, his example in race relations, his skill at the law. Said 40-year...
...rolled out 1,013,246 vehicles-nearly 19% more than in record 1949's first two months. For the U.S. economy as a whole, the Federal Reserve Board estimated that the strike had nipped total production only 2% to 3%. Prospects were that industry would soon make that up-and then some...
...present, there are seven electric power plants near the falls, five on the Canadian side, two on the U.S. They generate approximately 10 billion kilowatt-hours annually, with Canada producing 60% of it. The treaty will make it possible to multiply this power to 23.1 billion kilowatt-hours a year and divide the power equally between the countries...
...since 1947, has its own $300 million project for public power. Its main feature: two and possibly three tunnels, starting three miles above Niagara Falls, which will divert water to one of two proposed Government plants at Lewiston, N.Y., five miles below the falls.*This development, said FPC, would make it possible to cut the region's power costs by one-third to one-half, and perhaps supply cheap power to northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. But the U.S. public utility industry is already closing its ranks for a last-ditch fight on any extension of public power...
...make the down payment, Junto borrowed $1,500,000 for five days from the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co., and took over Bethpage. In its treasury was around $5,000,000 in working capital and profits. With this cash, Junto repaid the Fidelity-Philadelphia Co. and paid Levitt and his brother another $3,400,000. Junto agreed to pay the remaining $250,000 to the Levitts next December. Since it expects to do so out of cash on hand and incoming rents, Junto actually got the houses for nothing. When the mortgages are paid off in some 20 years, it will...