Word: purely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly because, like the nation in which he lived and of which he partook, he respected both the theoretical ("Why is grass green?" he asked-and one of his bosses, former General Motors President Charles Wilson, came to use the question as an example of woolly-headed, time-wasting pure science) and the practical ("Remember," said Kettering, "that you and I get no place in the world except as we serve the fellow who pays for our dinner...
...Moscow. Where he appeared, Western secrets tended to vanish. In 1945, during Zarubin's tenure as first Soviet Ambassador to Canada, Russian Embassy Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected and revealed the existence of a Red spy ring that had vacuumed Canada for strategic information, had shipped samples of pure Uranium 235 off to Moscow. Officially, Zarubin was cleared of complicity in the case. While he served in Washington, the U.S. Government occasionally expelled segments of his staff for espionage, but no one ever hung anything on Georgy...
...other phase of Eastern's strike is jurisdictional, an argument between the pilots' and engineers' unions over whether the "third man" in the cockpit shall be a pilot or an engineer (TIME, May 5). Eastern has agreed with the pilots' union that the engineer on pure jets should be a trained pilot also. It is willing to give its engineers pilot training at company expense, but the engineers say this is no help; as pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because...
...break-even point of 54%. In the twelve months ended Sept. 30, the line lost $748,944; the year before it had a net profit of $2,484,369. National's main hope is new equipment to attract more passengers; it has orders for three Douglas DC-8 pure jets, another 23 turboprop Lockheed Electras. But its place on the production line is so far back that it will not get the first 400-m.p.h. Electras until six months after competitor Eastern puts the same plane into service; the DC-8s will not arrive until 1960, about the same...
...opposed to capitalism in its pure state," the Rev. Mr. Opitz said. But he added that "economists reject the idea of objective values" and this tends to make money the 'god' of economics...