Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often painfully, where the program is lagging. "The successes and failures of all departments...
...Cadets 1 1/2 yrs. 3 yrs. 2 yrs. 1 yr. 7 1/2 yrs. COAST GUARD OCS 4 mos. 3 yrs. 1 2/3 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. The above chart lists the various training programs for officers. The ROTC programs must be entered as an incoming freshman, and therefore only the OCS (Officers Candidate School), PLC (Platoon Leaders Class) and OCC (Officers Candidate Corps) plans are of interest to most college men. PCT stands for pre-commission training...
Today everybody expects to live longer. But the man who can give the best longevity estimate, at least for one out of every five Americans, is Carrol Meteer Shanks, president of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, which has 33.2 million carefully analyzed policyholders. By charting a man's age, background, diseases, job, habits, even his morals, the Pru can chart the odds on the death age down to the last decimal. The Pru's tables show that a male policyholder aged 21 will probably live to be 73 years old, one aged 30 will live...
...expects to be producing uranium at an annual rate of $300 million, the bulk of it in the Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising dry cleaner...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 18--Britain and Greece clashed bitterly in the United Nations today over Cyprus. The British askd that the U.N. call on Greece to stop supplying arms to Cyprus terrorists, while Greece demanded the U.N. approve the right of Cypriots to chart their own political future...