Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only was the Truman program inadequate; it was dangerous, Baruch maintained. "Should this bill be enacted, without price control," he warned, "the Government may get what it wants, but with needless delay and ever-increasing prices. The public will be left to compete for the remainder-with the fattest pocketbook, not the greatest need, deciding who gets what is available. This bill, gentlemen, is an invitation to inflation...
...Need. Yet consumers still rushed to stock up on items which they feared might be cut back by war production; motorists grabbed up tires so fast that some U.S. tiremakers had to put their dealers on allocations. As General Tire & Rubber Co. explained in newspaper ads, the rush was needless. There was no real shortage; the rubber companies were at peak production and in May had hit a new record of 7,369,190 tires...
Elsewhere, in lesser ways, other colleges and universities have seen the wisdom of cooperating. There is the Farmington Plan, under which 54 great libraries' plan their buying in common to avoid needless competition; the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, where 24 universities do research together; Chicago's Midwest Interlibrary Center, serving eleven campuses of the Midwest; and Denver's Bibliographic Center for Research, serving the Rocky Mountain states...
...That year the first switchboard went into operation in University 3. It had only 40 stations, and no power for ringing bells, so operators had to use hand cranks. When the women complained about this added labor, the Buildings and Grounds Department replied that putting in power would require "needless expense." Finally, in 1911 the discontented operators won their fight, and since then bells have been rung electrically...
...Needless to say, TIME is offering no more perpetual subscriptions. But we are making a note to query these 189 every generation...