Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...put its okay on a new 4,700 mile rail network made up by merging the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. Wisconsin Central, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. All are subsidiaries of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The merger calls for formation of a new company to be called the Soo Line Railroad...
...long-winded Piel's fan who would not let Bert get his motivational research questions in edgewise, the labels got switched during a beer test and Brand X's foam lasted longer. Bert and Harry not only spoofed Piel's but Madison Avenue itself, put a new twist in kidding commercials...
...burglars in this instance are as amiable a bunch of cabbages as ever put their heads together. One (Renato Salvatori) is a successful baby-carriage thief. Another (Carlo Pisacane) is an old and toothless messenger boy. The third (Marcello Mastroianni) is a no-talent photographer, the fourth (Tiberio Murgia) a fiery Sicilian who thinks that everybody is trying to seduce his unmarried sister (Claudia Cardinale), the fifth (Vittorio Gassman) a preliminary bum who never hits anything but the canvas. Only the sixth (Toto), a renowned but senile safecracker, has any previous criminal experience, and when he sees the quality...
...this three-month quarter that they would normally get in six months, pumping an extra $718 million into the economy this year. (The cost is divided 90% federal, 10% state on interstate highways, fifty-fifty on other roads.) Most states have their share of the cash they must put up because the increased number of cars (latest count: 57,100,000) has boosted gasoline tax revenues, e.g., Virginia will raise her 1961 highway spending 61%, Wisconsin 41%, Michigan 18%, Missouri 8%, Texas...
Charming his crowded but appreciative audience with a witty sense of humor, Aron explained that there are too many questions which have not yet been answered. Nobody knows, he pointed out, what sort of people De Gaulle is going to put in power if independence is granted to Algeria. And nobody knows how he is going to deal with the FLN (National Liberation Front...