Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jonas E. Salk developed the vaccine. Thanks largely to a Pittsburgh Press drive, more than 150,000 shots have been given in a month in community clinics, at an average charge of 75^?. In some areas vaccine supplies were exhausted for a while but soon replaced. So far the problem was only distribution, not a national shortage...
Hotpoint's problem was a case of too many cooks. From 1955 to 1958 the company's top executives often disagreed about the best way to construct washers and washer-dryer combinations. Result: the company tried a little bit of everything. Now, under a revamped management team, Hotpoint has completely overhauled its testing and quality control to catch potential defects. The replacement program has generated so much good will for Hotpoint that the company, despite its large outlay, expects to end the year well in the black...
...tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial. I've got nothing to worry about. It's just a complicated business problem. People just don't understand anything about high finance...
...most serious problem before the U.S. is not the cold war or inflation; it is the recovery of confidence in our own aims and democratic ideals." The challenging words came from the most articulate conservative in U.S. higher education: burly, hard-hitting Henry M. (for Merritt) Wriston, 70, for three decades one of the nation's foremost college presidents (Wisconsin's Lawrence College, 1925-37, and Brown University, 1937-55). Says Wriston...
...July 29 The U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* One girl (Peggy Ann Garner) wants to be an actress, the other (Erin O'Brien) wants to be a housewife, and their careers get hopelessly tangled. The problem may not promise high drama, but the program is the only live dramatic show left on the summer schedule...