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...Newsmen sped out ten miles to suburban Helmieh to Naguib's modest, one-story, stucco villa in the center of a sandy, poverty-row street. They found the ex-President incommunicado behind a cordon of wellarmed, closemouthed troops. Even his phone...
...most important recommendation dealt with faster amortization of new plant and machinery, a device that sped the growth of defense industries during the war and postwar period. Eisenhower now proposes this change for all industry. A day later, the plan was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. The change would double depreciation rates allowed during the first year, with a gradual decline in depreciation allowance thereafter. For example, a $10,000 machine expected to last ten years can be depreciated at $1,000 a year under present law ("straight line" method); under the new method, the same machine...
...announced winner was Louis Chiron, 54, a Monte Carlo citizen who sped his 115.h.p. Lancia Aurelia over the final 2.14 miles of twisting city streets at 45 m.p.h. Chiron's secret of success over his Rally route: "Careful timing, eating, planning and determination . . . I munched dried fruit-grapes, apricots, figs-as well as chocolate and sugar all the way. I never quit eating . . . Others lost weight and time...
Nkrumah was touring the country in his Cadillac when his subordinate's charges were made. He coolly denied everything and sped back to Accra to appear before the tribunal. Nkrumah admitted that he had once accepted a bid for a road contract without consulting the Ministry of Works, but he insisted, and offered to prove, that "I have no property in any part of the Gold Coast...
...Bruins took advantage of an ineffectual Crimson defense, sped to a 37-to-24 halftime lead, and held, despite a weak last-half varsity surge...