Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty Knots in the Bank. The Navy is mum about Skipjack's performance on her first trial, but her submerged speed beat the top speed of the Albacore (30 knots), and may be in the range of 40 knots (46 m.p.h.). Few if any surface ships can travel so fast except over a glassy-smooth sea. A fast surface ship expends most of her energy in raising waves in the interface between sea and air. But the Skipjack has no such problems...
Small Ahead of Big? Only General Motors remained mum, but the silence concealed a lot of activity. Farther ahead than either of its Big Three competitors toward mass-producing a small car, G.M. will have ready for introduction in the fall a compact, six-cylinder auto with a part-aluminum engine in the rear. Last week the trade magazine Motor Life reported that G.M. is also considering manufacturing several models (e.g., Pontiac, Buick) using one basic body shell, will sell them through its separate dealers...
Trib will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court upholds the ruling, and Reporter Torre remains mum, she wili go to jail for ten days-and many a source for many a story that needs to be told will henceforth...
...well the 1959 models sell. Automakers are moving into volume production much more cautiously than in past years, employing far fewer workers. Ford says that it will roll into full production with 106,000 workers, down from last year's 140,000. While General Motors was mum on its payroll, the United Auto Workers estimated that G.M. will swing into full production of the '59s with 300,000 to 325,000 hourly rated workers v. an average of 392,000 in the last three years. Chrysler will begin with 59,000 v. last year...
Rumbled Superior Court Judge Arnold Praeger, in ruling on two taxpayer suits: "This is an illegal delegation of the duty of the city council, an abdication of its public trust and a manifest gross abuse of discretion." Pending an appeal, O'Malley stayed mum on renewal of his Coliseum lease (which expires next year), observed plaintively that "our timetable is completely out the window...