Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it is time for a change in the farm plan. The old program is encouraging production of huge surpluses, keeping food prices high, destroying the farmer's market, costing the taxpayers $900 million a year-and yet it is still not preventing farm income from falling. To correct this disaster-breeding situation, President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson proposed flexible price supports, keyed to the law of supply & demand, but cushioned to prevent a sharp drop in farm income (TIME...
Fumed Evie in her column: "I've been covering White House receptions since the days of Calvin Coolidge, and it's the first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
...tanning process developed by the Colonial Tanning Co. and just installed at its Milwaukee plant. Instead of curing hides by a great deal of manual work, Colonial-now has a conveyor belt to carry hides past splitting and shaving machines, uses automatic controls to mix acids and oils in correct proportion to tan them, and still more automatic controls to circulate just the right amount of warm air in drying rooms to finish curing the hides. In the past, it took six men eight hours to tan 50,000 square feet of leather; now two men do a better...
...Project Tinkertoy (TIME, Sept. 28) are some of the keys to the factory of the future. But it will be a long time before most U.S. industries are generally automatic, their operations run by a whole new group of controls such as "servo-mechanisms," which not only correct their own errors but perform a series of logical operations. Machines run by such controls are often fantastically expensive to produce; M.I.T. has developed a servo-controlled milling machine, so flexible that it can make 150 different products, but it costs $400,000. In many industries, the volume of production...
Cambridge may soon have a mayor, if current indications of a break in the City Council deadlock are correct...