Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. Steel, which has kept mum about whether it will raise prices to meet automatic July 1 wage hikes (estimated to cost steel firms 20? an hour), last week gave a hint of its intentions. Said Big Steel President Clifford F. Hood: "While costs are a major factor in any...
As for prices-they looked to be on the way up, too. Both Westinghouse President Mark W. Cresap Jr. and General Electric President Robert Paxton saw little chance of a price cut in appliances, instead talked of price increases forced on the industry by higher labor and material costs. In...
Tension-easing notes in Moscow and
Washington last week:
AT 500 knots the F-100F Super Sabre pulled out of its dive and rocketed upward. Up went the needle on the accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant...
First a ring of explosive anchor screws blew off the cone's back cover (see diagram). Fifteen seconds later, when the cone was about 5,000 ft. above the sea, a small explosive charge fired a tight-packed parachute out of a mortar-like container. It was a ribbon...