Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this week, there is no longer the slightest chance that Taft-Hartley will...
...king of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' fearsome West Coast goon squads, refused to answer the questions of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on the grounds that it was exceeding its authority. Cited for contempt of Congress, the Teamsters' Vice President Brewster, goon companion of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, claimed that he had purged himself by later appearing before the special McClellan committee and telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank was convicted (TIME, July...
...iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...
...hours, and made a parachute jump. Last June he supervised the trial ascent to 96,000 ft. by Captain Joe W. Kittinger, fighter pilot (TIME, June 17). On the ground, Space Surgeon Colonel John Stapp had drilled Simons for hours on simulated emergencies. Says Stapp: "After several weeks Dave could sit in a gondola, handle 20 emergencies and not die once...
...Down with Simons." As Simons finally started to descend. Stapp detected a slur in his voice. "What is your respiration, Dave?" Stapp asked. Simons' count: a fast 44 breaths a minute. "Check your carbon dioxide," radioed Stapp. Simons' reading: the carbon dioxide in the capsule's air was an alarming 4% (3% is dangerous...