Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in an effort to break the impasse, Michigan Governor George Romney invited both sides to sit down with him at the bargaining table. But Smoky was not in a negotiating mood. "Sure, it's a breakthrough," said he of his premium-pay demand. "But so were pensions a few years ago-when I got 'em here...
...other hand, an important breakthrough is at hand in the aerosol packaging of medicine and food. In these fields, aerosol cans have the special advantage of exposing to the air only whatever quantity of a product is actually used. There are various propellants (the pressurized gases that push the product out of the can) that are safe for most foods or drugs. However, the industry has had trouble developing different ways of combining container, valve and propellant at a reasonable cost. There will soon be radioactive inhalants for lung cancer patients, inhalant vaccines, allergens, and aerosol insulin to replace injections...
Survivors Emerge. The drilling proceeded even more cautiously as it neared the chamber; it took 13 hours to tunnel the last 12 ft. When the breakthrough came, Martinet issued appropriate congratulations. "Voild!" he shouted wryly. "For eight days we have been talking to each other. I would very much like to lay eyes on you." Yet he gallantly insisted on being the last to come...
...Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the Lockheed vice president who designed both the U-2 and the A11, said as he received an achievement award from the National Aviation Club: "I am very concerned about the sonic boom where the SST is concerned. Something must be done, or a technical breakthrough achieved to get the boom reduced...
...Barry Goldwater represents the first major breakthrough in "political conservatism" since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. Let's rid ourselves of this clique of liberals, Commie lovers, "intellectuals" and spend-nuts; let's extinguish the eternal flame of mediocrity and move up to greatness...