Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irreparable Damage." The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, fearing a wage freeze, promptly sided with the industry against "pinpoint" price fixing. If Valentine's order meant that cost-of-living boosts were also outlawed, then the auto industry's long-term contracts with the U.A.W. might be voided, he said, and "irreparable damage" done to the "morale of all American industrial workers." To all these questions and criticisms, Valentine's office replied with a vague statement that it was studying the situation...
Ever since the Korean war started, top Army brass had been marveling at the pinpoint precision of marine tactical aviation, had grown more & more disgruntled at the poor coordination between Army ground troops and the Air Force. General MacArthur said bluntly that the marines had it all over the Air Force. General Omar Bradley said the No. i lesson of Korea was the need for tying aviation closer to ground troops...
Gobbledygook for Hopeless. How does the world look to the Kremlin in this summer of 1950? Last week TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo asked the question of the West's students of the Soviet mind. None of the experts really thought he could pinpoint the Kremlin's thoughts with any certainty, but there was a notable agreement on some main points of Russian thinking-past, present and future. A composite view of the West's experts...
...whisked out of the range of their instruments. Apparently it is caused by an encounter between two air masses of different temperatures. Since the jet stream is narrow for a wind stream (seldom more than 100 mi. wide) and only some 5,000 ft. deep, it is hard to pinpoint exactly on a weather map. Airplanes flying high toward the west in the middle latitudes are apt to head into an uncharted jet stream and find their ground speed cut in half. Flying east, they may hitch a ride on a stream and cover great distances in greatly reduced time...
...Negro audience of the unyielding Democratic support for the Fair Employment Practices bill. "You're either for civil rights or you're not," declaimed Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, to whom all issues are just that simple. "We don't have to dance around the pinpoint on that needle...