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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon and California's Governor Goodwin Knight, whose love for Republicans in general does not extend to each other in particular, had another little tussle for precedence. Asked to introduce Nixon at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner in San Francisco next month, Goodie Knight found he had a "previous engagement." But he sent Nixon a telegram offering to introduce the Vice President at another Republican rally in Los Angeles where the governor would be the undisputed star...
John Lord O'Brian, eminent Washington lawyer and last year's Godkin Lecturer, spoke on "The Value of Constitutionalism Today." His description of a "consistent trend inimical to all previous concepts of freedom' 'received particular acclaim from members of the conference...
...faiths, all denominations, all areas of the country are caught up in the construction rush. In the last decade, churches have spent $3 billion on new building, as compared to the $1.3 billion spent in the previous peak decade, the ?20s. Estimates for the next ten years run to approximately $7 2 billion. Other facts and figures: ¶Last year U.S. churches spent half a billion dollars on new construction, with the Southern Baptists alone accounting for $130 million and the Congregational Christian Churches spending more than $20 million. ¶So far this year, the upward trend has continued...
Buyers seemed unconcerned that prices were about 20% above previous models, the new machines often gave many times 20% more production. For example a ten-ton machine built by Lapointe Ma-:hine Tool Co. of Hudson, Mass, can turn out Ford connecting rods at a 1,200-an-hour clip, more than twice the speed of earlier machines. An automatic screwdriver made by Pneuma-Serve, Inc., Cleveland, which shoots screws into position and then drives them home, stepped up production 800% in one operation at the New York Progressive Wood Heel Co. of Brooklyn...
...makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard of 350 an hour...