Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talked generalities in a half-hour chat in Manhattan with United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who dropped by during a recess in the critical contract negotiations with Big Steel...
Since World War II, he noted, scientists working in the U.S. have won more than half of the Nobel Prizes in the physical sciences. But there are still too few people at work on basic research (fewer than 30,000, or 4% of U.S. scientists and engineers). What can be done about it? "Regimented research would be, for us, catastrophe," said the President."We must search out the talented individual and cultivate in all American life a heightened appreciation of the importance of excellence and high standards . . . We must be willing to match our increasing investments in material resources with...
This in itself could be labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters...
Your editorial of May 20th came as a complete surprise to one who found a "Home" at Dudley for three and one-half years prior to its officially becoming a House...
...attempt at direct action, Veritas collected the 200 signatures necessary to nominate one of its supporters by petition as a candidate for the Board of Overseers. Though the name of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 a former aide of Gen. MacArthur) did appear on the official ballot, and though half-page ads supporting him were inserted in Cleveland and Philadelphia newspapers, the Veritas candidate failed to gain election. In consequence, the group was reduced to its alumni mailings and sporadic contact with Harvard officials...