Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must protest your Aug. 26 issue of TIME with Althea Gibson on the cover. We have enough trouble with these people without paying for a magazine which carries such news. You will ruin your magazine if you continue to run such articles. Don't do it again...
...your Aug. 5 discussion of inflation you neglected to mention one of the causes: namely, pensions. It is very obvious that when a person is promised that he will receive an adequate income in later life he will proceed to spend more of his present income than he would in other circumstances. He has no further need to save and so he spends...
...Your Aug. 19 box on Secretary of Defense McElroy and Procter & Gamble reminds me of a time when, as one of a group of chemical warfare inspectors in training, I was sent to a P. & G.-operated shell-loading plant in Tennessee to observe the handling of explosives. P. & G. maintained a discipline in regard to safety rules that is still a goal with me in my present role as teacher and mother. If Mr. McElroy can apply to the Pentagon some of the principles that were of paramount importance in P. & G.'s plant, he'll come...
...industry has scaled 1957's sales forecast down to about 5.8 million cars, production last week was still rolling along at a rate of better than 6,000,000 cars annually, building up an inventory of unsold cars that is beginning to weigh heavily on dealers. As of Aug. 1, U.S. auto dealers had 750,808 unsold 1957 models, 7% less than 1955's record production year, but 22% more than in August last year...
...went to the rescue of the nation's biggest corporation. Before a House Armed Services subcommittee, Air Force officers defended General Motors against charges that it made $17.4 million too much profit on a contract to produce 599 F-84F Thunder-streak jet fighters two years ago (TIME, Aug. 5). The company's performance, said Air Force witnesses, was "fabulous," "surprising," "phenomenal." Instead of overstating its costs, as charged, G.M. actually did its best to reduce costs, showed "unheard-of ingenuity" in producing the planes and completed its contract a full month ahead of schedule. Said Brigadier General...