Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy for six years, and his work resulted in two memorable cover stories (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951; March...
Sceptre looked good-from the clean curve of her underbody to the long, sharp sweep of her bow. But just eight months after lucky gold sovereigns were tossed into molten lead and her keel was cast on the shore of Scotland's Holy Loch, Britain's yare challenger for the America's Cup also looked a slow boat. In a dozen tune-up races with an elderly twelve-meter trial horse, Evaine, the gleaming Sceptre had been beaten every time. Last fortnight as Sceptre was hauled out of the water for inspection and checking, squalls of criticism...
Though U.S. firms, in a belated awakening, sent 60 delegates to Harrogate, they have taken the lead in developing only nine world standards. They have not worked at all on 58 of the 142 draft recommendations for standards now being considered, including standards for such big export items as steel and textile machinery. Many standards may therefore be set up contrary to U.S. design, shutting U.S. goods out of nations that adopt them as effectively as do high tariffs, currency restrictions or import quotas...
Since U.S. industrial technology leads the world, many nations could easily be persuaded to adopt U.S. standards as international, thus open up new markets for U.S. products. But while U.S. businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited. Great Britain, France and The Netherlands have taken the lead in standard setting, and even Russia has participated in one-third more standardization conferences than the U.S. Young industrial nations are already finding it easier to adopt British. French or even Russian rather than U.S. standards. In the last ten years, India has adopted some 1,000 national standards; most were British...
...space, bring both military and civilian craft under strict ground control. To operate the airways, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is spending $1 billion to replace the current hodgepodge control with a semiautomatic, radar-based system. The trouble with the plan is its target date: 1963. With a lead-time of 18 months or more for complex radars, CAA is still waiting for 70% of the control equipment ordered since 1956. To be really safe, say CAA men, 85% of the 100,000 U.S. planes now flying would have to be ordered out of the air until the whole new system...