Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only patience, determination, optimism and a very deep faith can carry America forward...
...moving forward. In and around the cities, bulldozers, pneumatic drills and rivet guns played an unending symphony of progress on new homes, new factories, new office buildings. The "for gotten man" of New Deal days was ven turing his capital in small businesses -millinery shops, hamburger stands, ma chine shops. In labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation...
...again. When Chairman Priest got Yale's Professor John R. Paul (School of Medicine) to poll the panel of 15 experts, the result was 8 to 3 in favor of going on with Salk inoculations, and four abstentions (including Dr. Salk himself). Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele hurried forward with a statement reaffirming his endorsement of continued manufacture and vaccination. Nonetheless, the question at the end of the hearing was the same as at the start: Can a safe Salk vaccine be consistently produced? Nobody bothered to ask the Canadians, but they had what seemed the answer...
...Fast Stream. One of the disadvantages of the conventional turbojet engine is its lack of propulsive efficiency. The stream of hot gas from its tailpipe speeds backward much faster than the airplane is flying forward. Much of its energy is wasted in creating air turbulence. The efficiency would be greater if the speed of the gas stream were only moderately greater than the speed of the airplane. But conventional jet engines cannot slow their gas stream without losing efficiency in other ways...
Nevertheless, from now on industry should incorporate military purpose in its economic thinking and keep dispersal firmly in mind as it plans further expansion. Dispersal and decentralization are as much considerations of forward-looking management as healthy labor relations or sound accounting practice. For many companies, dispersal will mean not only greater safety in war but greater efficiency in peace...