Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commands agencies which can regulate and control almost every aspect of U.S. life. Unlike the World War II days, when his job was simply to produce everything the military asked for, he is now charged as well with keeping the civilian economy from flying to bits in the process...
Shop Man. His 40 years of scaling the heights had made few basic changes in him. He had learned endlessly. He had met and made his way among the mighty. He had forced himself to become a public speaker, a painful process in which he had tempered, though not dropped, his West Side accent (he sometimes produces an astonishing Harvard...
...Thirty armed [Red Chinese police] took over, first searching both men and women after the removal of their outer clothing, then each room separately. This process lasted for 37 hours without letup, interspersed with interrogation, false accusations, and constant surveillance even to the extent of ladies being accompanied into bathrooms. Speech with one another was forbidden...
Thin Tin. Weirton Steel Co. found a way to save tin in tin cans, thus help ease the critical tin shortage. A new plating process puts a thick layer of tin on one side of a steel sheet, a thin one on the other. Methods now in general use put the same thickness on both sides, although tin cans need the thick layer only on the inside. The new plating process, said Weirton President Thomas E. Millsop, will save at least...
...taking of blood and the typing will require only a few minutes, with test officials hoping to process men at the rate of 70 an hour. Each man will receive a card on the spot, showing his blood type (one of four major blood groups plus his Rh factor status). Later the accuracy of the method will be determined in laboratory tests by Dr. Diamond...