Word: ings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stability is one thing that Nate Twin-ing's Air Force-in common with the Navy and Army-does not have. "This whole thing could go to hell in two weeks." says Curt LeMay. Why? "People." It takes two years of a four-year enlistment to train a ground-crew chief, engine mechanic, radar technician or flight engineer...
...kicked the match away. He refused Bromwich's thoughtful offer to forfeit rather than beat the tournament's No. 1 drawing card, went down 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in the last three sets. Stomping off the court, Trabert snapped at Aussie newsmen: "I have noth ing to say. You can make up your own story." Next day it was Seixas' turn to make another story. Playing in a doubles match with Partner Trabert, Wimbledon Cham pion Seixas was aced to match point...
Instead of the old piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...
...Nigeria's hopes for early independence might easily go up in smoke. Lyttelton's object at the conference was to devise a new federal constitution that will enable Nigeria's 30 million to achieve self-government along the same lines as their neighbors in the boom ing Gold Coast, without falling out in the process. The Africans too are eager for independence - but divided in factions...
...originally designed, in 1930, to clean up Hollywood, which in those days was making such hot-blooded pictures as Luring Lips and Flame of Youth. But in recent years, moviemakers aiming for pictures with an adult appeal, and others frankly bent on box-office excitement, have rejected censorship, turn ing the resultant publicity to their advantage. Samples...