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Word: highs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bender criticized colleges for not explaining clearly their objectives or informing the secondary high schools about the kind of students necessary to fulfill these objectives...

Author: By James Marx, | Title: Educators Address Conference: Conant, Bender, Nelson, Fowlkes Urge Improving of High Schools | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...Fowlkes, Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, ended the conference with his speech, "Now for Action." He attacked the attempt to "sell" schools to the public in order to raise more funds, and stated that if the public were truly informed of the needs of the public high schools educators would encounter no problems in raising the necessary funds...

Author: By James Marx, | Title: Educators Address Conference: Conant, Bender, Nelson, Fowlkes Urge Improving of High Schools | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...look in U.S. labor-management relations. He feels that the U.S. is no longer a "laboristic society," that U.S. business, after sweltering for years in a climate that considered labor invincible, can and must check the unions' power, simply because it can no longer accept the high costs of labor demands. Looking over the whole economy, Blough knows that when it comes to inflation, foreign competition and other new factors in the economy, labor and management are in the same boat; what hurts one also hurts the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

France has one of the best and most buoyant steel positions in its history, raised production to a record 16.2 million tons last year. The industry is modern, research conscious and anxious to win new markets. Though Japan is still considered a high-cost producer of iron and steel-mainly because it has to import raw materials-it also manages to compete actively abroad, is moving into South America at the expense of the U.S. industry. Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...entire process of melting and pouring steel is carried on in a huge vacuum chamber, operated by remote controls that resemble those in an atomic "hot lab." On a more modest scale, many U.S. companies are also pouring molten steel from their furnaces into a vacuum chamber, producing high-quality, high-stress steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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