Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slogan of "total war." It was so total that the future beyond the war's end seemed infinitely remote. If war aims were difficult to agree upon, then the formula for ending the war would be total, or unconditional, surrender. Alliances, too, were to be total in scope and of ever-loving duration...
...Better Connection. Under the leadership of the miners' John L. Lewis and the garment workers' Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky, the C.I.O. was formed in 1935 with two slogans: 1) "organizing the unorganized" and 2) doing it by setting up unions of industrial (as opposed to craft) scope. The C.I.O. took with it a high proportion of the brains and drive of the A.F.L. and about one-third of the membership. The C.I.O.'s great achievements: organization of the automobile workers and the steelworkers. Its great failure: the heavy infiltration of Communists into some of its unions...
Radar Beacons. The Civil Aeronautics Authority has tested and approved radar beacons for use on civilian airports. Most big airports already have surveillance radar beacons that display all airplanes in the vicinity as moving "blips" on their scopes, but when traffic is heavy, it is often hard to tell which blip stands for which airplane. The beacon system leaves no doubt. As each airplane comes into a control area, it is called by voice radio and assigned a "code pulse." Then the "transponder" carried by the plane answers when the beacon at the airport sends that particular code. Since...
...against "violence and brutality," not the overly spicy episodes. When one movie pictured a man clubbing another over the head with an old water hose the British censors brought out their scissors. "It's an act someone could imitate," they said. A particularly good example is that Cinema scope epic, "King of the Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing in only a few countries. A Hollywood...
...meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over the Dixon-Yates contract . . . these Democrats themselves have made the controversy bitter. And they have augmented its heat and scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical issue of engineering and administrative procedure. In pursuance of this course they have put Chairman Strauss's integrity to the question on the flimsiest of pretexts. And they have encouraged their fellow Democrat, AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray...