Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thresher's departure caused little excitement around the shipyard. Behind her were nine months of overhaul and modernization. New electronic and sonar gear had been installed. To put in the intricate equipment, several holes had been cut in the boat's hull-the largest was a yard square, to make way for an improved garbage ejector...
Place in History. Now, on a brilliant Tuesday morning, the sub set to sea for two days of post-overhaul tests in the Atlantic. The 129 men aboard-17 of them civilian technicians from the shipyard-figured to be back in time for a party Thursday night in the base gymnasium. The occasion was the 63rd anniversary of the Navy's first submarine force...
Unless the pattern is to be repeated all over when the new contracts expire on April 1. 1965. it is obvious that something must be done to overhaul bargaining techniques. But for the time being, the publishers are far less worried about what might happen two years from now than about what their circulation will be to morrow. And they have cause for concern. Even without the normal attrition in readership caused by a lengthy strike, the Times and Trib figure to suffer some losses as a result of their new 10? prices. When Manhattan's afternoon papers went...
Tighter Controls. From Ford Beck brought a team of eight topflight executives, installed them in key jobs, and began to overhaul the company. Philco's research division, which had been competing with other Philco divisions for Government contracts, was given a mission to help other divisions. Two separate divisions that had been engaged in weapons and communications work were consolidated. And the almost autonomous departments within the consumer products division were eliminated to cut out overlapping activities. Beck also introduced Detroit-style cost accounting to keep close watch on production costs. His efforts produced results: manufacturing efficiency last year...
Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. ("Rab") Butler had just spent two weeks in the Rhodesias, and concluded that a breakup of the ten-year-old federation was inevitable. Sometime in the coming spring, Butler is expected to call a conference in London to overhaul the constitution of Northern Rhodesia, and give the region the right to secede; he also hoped that he might salvage from the federation's wreckage some kind of economic link between the two Rhodesias. Field's aim is to win independence for Southern Rhodesia before Britain has a chance to draft...