Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...smelter works costing $900 million. It was more than newly independent Ghana could afford. Kaiser drew up his own plan, which boosted power capacity by 40% aluminum capacity by 10%; over the British estimates-and cost only $600 million (TIME. May 4, 1959). Ghana found that more reasonable, set about raising money to build the dam from the U.S., Britain, and the World Bank. It now has promises of $90 million, plus $70 million of its own money, will receive bids for the dam contract next month...
Dealers are belatedly joining her in hollering, since they lose the housewife's confidence-and future sales-and are forced to provide excessive service repairs. For example, New York's Korvette chain last year found that a nationally advertised TV set had a bad part. Korvette refused to sell it until the flaw was corrected...
...ERMA-Electronic Recording Machine Accounting. General Electric put the sys tem together, hitching components from National Cash Register Co. and Pitney-Bowes to its own computer, which it programed to process checks and do bank bookkeeping. To mark checks for use in the system, the Stanford researchers devised a set of stylized Arabic numerals* printed them in magnetic ink so that no matter how a check is folded or crumpled the numbers can still be read by ERMA. Subsequently the American Bankers Association approved the Stanford method for use in all member banks...
...mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling. She enlisted Fellow Schoolteacher Jacquelyn Park, 25, began pickling Dilly Beans and packing them by hand, then set up Park & Hagna with joint capital of $4,000, engaged a fledgling ad agency named Papert, Koenig & Lois. The agency suggested an irreverent ad campaign aimed at making dilly-tantes out of people who like to try new things...
Durrell and the Fon became foiner and foiner friends. When the time came for the zoologist to leave with his animals, the Fon gave him a set of his own magnificently embroidered black-and-yellow robes and proclaimed him the Deputy...