Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard are being put into shape in anticipation of just such an overflow of orders-provided that the shortage in steel plate can be licked. "The shipbuilding industry will have to operate at 30% to 40% of its potential," says Leigh Sanford, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, "if we don't get enough steel to meet our orders...
...Argentine army is split, the navy is not. Aramburu hastily deployed 16 warships in the River Plate off Buenos Aires and La Plata. Insurrectionary fervor cooled off fast. At week's end Bengoa was under arrest, and the government announced, reassuringly, that the shakeup would not be made a pretext for postponing elections...
...past three weeks U.P. Veteran Jones has received "dozens and dozens" of similar messages. They have been slipped under his dinner plate, tucked into his car, pressed into his hand on the street. "Sometimes," he wrote last week, "they want you to get word to relatives in America. Or perhaps it's just a message to everybody in the U.S." To Jones they have become a symbol of his own "continuous feeling of inadequacy, both as an American and a reporter who helplessly watched the murder of an entire people...
High Hurdle. To meet the demand for new shipping, the highest hurdle to jump is the shortage of steel. Merely counting current orders, shipbuilders will need at least 170,000 tons of steel plate this year. Yet plate is so tight that deliveries have already fallen 40% behind demand. With the new orders, the shortage is so serious that Government maritime officials are talking about some sort of priority system to allocate supplies. The problem is that so many industries are pinched for supplies that the Office of Defense Mobilization fears that special treatment for shipbuilders will bring demands from...
...keep spending and keep growing. The U.S. is pouring $5 billion a year into research whose outcome, years distant, can seldom be gauged in terms of dollar returns. More than ever, the businessman must rely on scientists and economists and be ready to gamble on their projections. Says Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard: "Too many people and facilities are at stake for management to be timid, cautious, slow, antiquated." General Electric Co. President Ralph Cordiner estimates that up to 90% of his time is spent on projects that will not come to fruition until after...