Word: relearned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city manager, Mosier was hand-picked by Smith in 1938, is gearing every part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists of two volumes four inches thick. ¶ Charles A. Rheinstrom, 56, executive vice president for sales, quit American in 1946 after 18 years, went into advertising, came back this year at Smith's request to take on the job of selling...
...best for the country in the long run. This means more than getting people to go out and buy a new lipstick or a new refrigerator. If the depression is to serve any purpose, the people, and especially businessmen, should learn the proper economic lessons from it. They should relearn such basic virtues as prudence and the value of a good day's work, and what is worth how much. We need to cut waste, and work for a balanced budget...
...Britain is to support its welfare state in a competitive world, it would have to relearn how to compete at home...
...Government expenditures. Obeying it, Humphrey often finds him self in conflict with other department heads; Washington gagsters call Humphrey "Secretary of Everything." But Humphrey's function, long missed in Washington, is the essential one of imposing outside limits on Government activities, limits which force operating depart ments to relearn that economy is the parent of effectiveness. Humphrey and the President have become warm personal friends, and see a good deal of each other outside their official talks. Although the personal relationship is less close, the Pres ident also places great confidence in Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...Robust Experience. For artistic as well as economic reasons, it is high time, says Kerr, a playwright himself (Sing Out, Sweet Land!), that playwrights start to relearn what their audiences prefer: "No great play has ever come from what might be called a minority theater . . . The presence of the uncultivated mass ... is an indispensable prerequisite for drama of genuine stature ... At worst, the popular theater holds the fort; at best, it finds its way to Hamlet...