Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranges from commercial aircraft to zinc. While it covers many vital raw materials that are likely to become short at the outbreak of war, it also includes such important capital goods as locomotives and tankers that are needed in the long-range execution of a war. Among the worst laggards on this list are taconite, 70% behind the goal; titanium, 50% behind; freight cars, 31%; diesel locomotives, 39%; ocean-going ore carriers, 97%, tankers, 74%. The trouble is that in most of the laggard categories industry is being deliberately cautious. Some of the items, such as copper and lead...
...once laggard third in radio and television's Big Three is coming up in the world. Eight months ago, the American Broadcasting Co., $7,500,000 in debt, merged with United Paramount Theaters (combined assets: over $144 million) in the biggest transaction in broadcasting history. For ABC, it was a spectacular shot in the arm and its first real chance to match bankrolls with NBC and CBS. With its new wealth, ABC promptly paid off its debt and set to work building programs (primarily for TV) and harvesting new affiliates (latest total: 158 TV stations, 363 radio outlets...
...governor, Ruiz Cortines made a sound, unsensational record. He appointed commissions to check all state bureaus for graft, and he doubled the state's meager funds by cajoling laggard taxpayers into paying up. At Jalapa, the state capital, he lived in a small cottage outside town and walked to work. Once, when he stopped at a resort hotel in Fortin, he was given a suite. He asked the rate and was told it was 100 pesos. "Don't you think I can solve my problems just as well for 25 pesos?" he asked, and moved to a single...
...high-school boy, he was a laggard student, liked most to swim and tramp in the mountains. He played football fairly well, but he gave up field sports when he was accidentally hit on the head by a South Pasadena shotputter...
...which remark, no laggard...