Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilian and military scientists and technicians work with freshly blueprinted tools over the incredibly complex mechanisms of space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames may consume the bird only minutes later-the men of Cape Canaveral are testing and proving everything from an idea to a pump, amassing the knowledge that will ensure the success of man's epochal flight into space as well as the reliability of space-ranging weapons...
Privately, Gaitskell feels it unlikely that much good will come of a summit meeting. But publicly, he finds it both wise and popular to endorse the idea and blame the U.S. for any delay in its realization. "The Americans," he told a television audience last week, "have been a bit difficult about summit talks and what we call taking the peace initiative." With even fewer inhibitions, Aneurin Bevan (the likeliest candidate for Foreign Secretary, should Labor come to power) named the name of Britain's favorite scapegoat, accused Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of spurning an important Soviet...
...works: "I get up each day, and I have no idea of what I'm going to do. I'm very worried. Then I work. Then I go to bed and still worry and say I haven't worked enough. It's always the same...
...even the discount houses had any idea that cut-rates would snowball so far so fast. To compete with low-overhead discounters, even the biggest stores run frequent "warehouse sales," "specials," "closeouts," trading at 10% above cost v. the standard 30% to 40% markups. Originally, the big stores restricted competition to a few fast-selling items; now they match discounters dollar for dollar. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Los Angeles' Barker Bros., Jordan, Marsh Co. have started running almost identical ads proclaiming an old retailing slogan: "We Will Not Be Undersold." Milwaukee's Boston Store last week advertised...
...majority of the committee favored the stockpile idea, and its vice chairman, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, drafted a bill to authorize stockpile buying. The plan is for AEC to pile up 7,250 tons of concentrate a year, expand mill capacity from 17,500 tons to 24,750 tons by the end of 1959 In a few years when AEC's contracts to buy from Canada and Africa expire, AEC could feed the concentrate into atomic plants in place of the foreign concentrate that now supplies half of U.S. needs. By 1966 the stockpile...