Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The stubborn, stolid disregard by the steel industry and the Steelworkers for the general welfare, as they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut...
Lawyer Doub ticked off the Government's view of the steel strike's ugly impact. With 87% of the nation's steelmaking capacity shut down since mid-July, the strike had hindered urgent missile, space and nuclear-submarine programs. If the strike dragged on, secondary layoffs resulting...
The division of responsibility has lost months for Von Braun's Saturn program, the U.S.'s best chance to match the big Soviet moon rockets in the mid-1960s. Von Braun proposed Saturn, with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik...
Shortage of Dancing Girls. But once the two mayors were buckled in their C121 (Constellation) seats for the flight to Tyndall, the story of their disillusionment-as recorded in sworn statements by Air Force and civilian witnesses and bolstered by Air Force movies-read differently. First off, Mayor Fitzpatrick asked...
Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan...