Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Donald N. Yates, commander, U.S.A.F missile-testing base, Cape Canaveral, Fla LL.D. Citation: "A very model of a modern major general, highly trained in science as well as warfare. A crack meteorologist, his predictions set the date for D-day in World War II ... He has proved himself a brilliant administrator and leader...
Since January the Buenos Aires' cost-of-living index has soared from 1,610 to 2,665 (from a base of 100 in January 1943). Señ Ferrer finds bread up from 4? to 8? a kilo, eggs from 14? to 47? a dozen, vegetables and fruits trebled in price. Husband Vittorino, 38, no longer goes noontimes to a restaurant; instead, he takes a sandwich and a bottle of bouillon to work. He has even given up his cheap, locally made cigarettes. His paycheck is fixed at 5,200 pesos a month (around $60 on last week...
...Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had agreed to union demands for $10-a-week pay boost this year and $5 in 1960, enough to pay the stereotypers their highest scale anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department to be trimmed, even though he could easily trim them himself...
...closest the talks came to a bargaining base was on an eight-point management contract revision proposal to "improve efficiency and eliminate waste," thus "generate new economic progress." The industry's implied offer of a noninflationary wage boost in return for broader management rights was promptly labeled "industrial blackmail" by Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald. Said he: "You have nothing but contempt for your employees...
Taking down the Queen's picture was the most provocative thing Lee's forces did last week-as if determined to show how untrue were all those stories abroad that the Communists had now taken control of Britain's great Far East naval base. British officials on the scene, less alarmed, have convinced themselves that Lee's bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought...