Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American cars, a Soviet attempt to emulate capitalist mass production of autos, the huge freighters of the future, and a set of far-out projects reported on in The Magnificent Men in Their Whooshing Machines. These include monorails, hovercraft, aero-trains, and just about every other form of transport save the flying carpet and the broomstick-some of which are superspeed realities, others still in blueprint...
...lawyers for indigents in all 3,100 of the nation's counties; more than two years after Gideon, there has been virtually no progress in 2,900 counties handling 70% of U.S. criminal cases. Another committee is investigating sentencing procedures. At present, no courts in the U.S. save in Connecticut and Massachusetts have the power to review sentences, however harsh or inadequate, unless they exceed statutory maximums. A more equable system of criminal justice, most authorities agree, would also demand better training, higher pay and greater public support for the nation's 350,000 policemen...
...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned...
...Government ought to gradually rescind laws that require at least half of all U.S. foreign aid cargoes to be carried in U.S. bottoms. By shifting the loads to foreign fleets, Johnson says the Government could save considerable money-which it could use to bankroll the building of modern U.S. ships. > All new ships should have a high degree of automation in order to qualify for subsidy...
...actually rose before the recession in 1957; it did, however, drop sharply prior to the 1960 recession. Stocks crashed in 1962, but the economy scarcely paused. There is a point when a deep and lengthy market drop can induce businessmen and consumers to save instead of spend, thus precipitating a recession. Washington's economic policymakers do not believe that matters have yet reached that danger point, and, if talk can do the job, they do not intend to let them reach...