Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involved, deeply involved, in a deception," he testified. Van Doren said he knew ahead of time what was going to be asked. He was coached on the answers and how to deliver them for maximum entertainment impact, he said...
...Ugly Impact. Early in the week the wheels of the Taft-Hartley law began rolling when the distinguished three-member fact-finding board reported bleakly to the President on its ten-day effort to mediate a settlement: "The board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...
Lawyer Doub ticked off the Government's view of the steel strike's ugly impact. With 87% of the nation's steelmaking capacity shut down since mid-July, the strike had hindered urgent missile, space and nuclear-submarine programs. If the strike dragged on, secondary layoffs resulting from the steel famine would soar to 1,275,000 by the end of November, and 2,500,000 by the end of December-not counting the 500,000 striking Steelworkers...
...between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...
...country's steelworkers and almost two-thirds of the workers on the billion dollar Snowy Mountains hydroelectric irrigation complex in New South Wales are, as fellow union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal...