Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep its 17 authorized divisions; the Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850,000, will maintain combat units at authorized size, keep the Marines at three divisions; the Air Force, from 925,000 to 900,000, will make no cuts in combat outfits. One probable overall effect: a further cutback in draft calls...
...Economist Gaitskell's program is "deliberately designed to have the minimum of eventual real effect, while instilling the maximum of interim uncertainty in every boardroom in the country...
...Another important factor is the "pod" that can be hung below its fuselage. Almost ideally streamlined, the pod has comparatively little drag, but it can carry a large thermonuclear bomb and fuel for the outgoing leg of a long flight. At the target, the pod can be dropped. In effect, the use of the pod eliminates empty bomb bays and fuel tanks that other bombers must bring home with them at high cost in air resistance...
...have one job in the daytime and still another at night or on days off, has risen from 1,800,000 to 3,700,000 in the past six years. Now one in 18 U.S. workers is a moonlighter-not counting the 14 million working wives who, in effect, hold two jobs. The practice is increasing so fast that management, doctors, social workers and even columnists advising the lovelorn denounce it. Said a Cleveland union leader: "Moonlighting is morally wrong. We believe a man should get a decent wage for a regular day's work, and if he doesn...
Most unions fight moonlighting," fear that it will trip up the drive toward the shorter day or the four-day workweek. They argue that if workers simply use their extra days to take on a second major job, there will be no work-spreading effect to counter either automation or the flood of war babies expected to join the work force in a few years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks...