Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Progress. Economist Villalbi's cure for these ills calls for a mixture of more freedom in some areas and more government control in others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...letter to the New York Times yesterday, Slichter criticized the Institute of Life Insurance for its following advertisement: "If each one of us will save only an extra nickel out of every dollar we earn, we will put a strong brake on inflation...
...guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically." This is not correct, as all the equipment installed at the Conway Yard, which controls freight cars in this automatic manner, was developed and manufactured by the Union Switch & Signal Division of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. A. M. WIGGINS Vice President and General Manager Union Switch & Signal Division Swissvale...
...March Air Force Base near Riverside, stepped off the ramp, glanced at his watch, then stared dourly at the calm, brilliant sky, and waited. Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...