Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high time. With new-found momentum, the non-Communist unions (the Socialist Force Ouvriere, the Catholic Christian Trade Union and several independents) have already signed up the employers of some 600,000 Paris-area metal workers to contracts identical to the Renault terms. Employers and non-Communist unions jointly hailed the new settlements as milestones in labor relations. If it did not want to be left behind, the Communist-led CGT would probably have to follow suit: French workers were in no mood to be pauperized for the benefit of the revolution...
When a friend warned Paul Kayser, president of El Paso Natural Gas Co., that his blistering pace would one day make him "fly apart like a watch spring," the 68-year-old Kayser coolly replied: "Hell, when I die I'll run 15 years on momentum...
Last week Paul Kayser increased his prehumous momentum. The Federal Power Commission authorized El Paso to go into a $194 million expansion program, including construction of a 413-mile pipeline from Colorado and New Mexico's San Juan Basin to the Arizona-California border. The program will increase the El Paso system deliveries by 455,175,000 cu. ft. of natural gas a day to serve more customers in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Part of the gas will come indirectly from Canada, through a deal (also authorized by FPC last week) in which Westcoast Transmission...
Head Tutor Brown says he would not be surprised to see the college volunteer movement gain momentum nationally. "The same competition and search for moral reassurance exists everywhere," he believes...
...scarcely twitched. The stock market ducked for a day, then bobbed up. Elsewhere, the momentum of U.S. life carried on without a jar. The Ford Motor Co. created no surprise whatever by announcing a half-billion-dollar expansion program in 1956. Aside from their interest in the bulletins from Denver, the U.S. people concentrated on the World Series, the annual climax of the most highly organized and statistics-adorned game that men have ever played...