Word: letup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, frazzled by nearly three years of seven-day workweeks without a letup, Charlie Thomas, 59, announced his resignation, and President Eisenhower accepted it "with very real regret...
Under Coleman there has been no letup in segregation for the Negroes. In the shining new factories, few get better jobs than floor sweeping. Disgruntled, some 25,000 Negroes a year are leaving for opportunities elsewhere. Yet the bulk of an estimated $100 million to be spent on schools in the next five years will be used to bring Negro schools up to white levels. The state grants Negro teachers salaries equal to their white counterparts (but local school boards frequently add discriminatory differentials). Unlike governors in Louisiana. Alabama and Texas, Coleman disapproved of banning the N.A.A.C.P. Says a Mississippi...
...demands the services of a phenomenal one-tenth of the U.S. labor force to man, equip, maintain and feed it. It also demands the unflagging efficiency, enthusiasm and watchfulness of the front-line crews and the steady support of the public during years of strain that know no letup. Whenever Admiral Radford gets away from his three briefcases of Sunday homework to take a drive with his wife Marianna (which is rarely), he must first outline his exact route to a duty officer, so that troopers can be deployed to bring him back in a hurry, if necessary. A crew...
...sales of G.M. cars (TIME, Jan. 14) and some appliances were softening the market for cold rolled sheets, bringing supply in line with demand for the first time since last summer's strike. But for the types of steel that make up most of production, there was no letup. The market for structural steel, heavy plate and pipe that go into tankers, heavy construction and pipelines was tighter than at any time since the Korean...
...Changing." Regardless of the market's oscillations, U.S. businessmen seemed to view the presidential illness without alarm. Said Los Angeles Stock Exchange Vice Chairman Frank E. Naley: "If his recovery is rapid and complete, there should be no letup in the record industrial expansion. A slow recovery or a decision to withdraw from politics could possibly cause some hesitation, but would not stop the expansion program. The momentum is too great." Added Inland Steel's President Joseph L. Block: "Over the long range, no one man's health can have much effect. The forces in the economy...