Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrialized nations, the danger is not in overpopulation but in under-population. Soviet Russia, where the government awards the Order of Maternal Glory to mothers of seven or more children, had to scrap its last five-year plan partly because of labor shortages.* Presumably, Russia's own manpower shortage and the proximity of all those Chinese is what Khrushchev had in mind five years ago, when he declared: "If another 100 million were added to our 200 million, even that would not be enough." In similar spirit, Australia, which 30 years ago was a continent-sized Sleepy Hollow...
...widow of battling Railroadman Robert Young resigned in a huff from the board of the multimillion-dollar Alleghany Corp. last week-and thus set the stage for what promises to be 1960's liveliest proxy scrap. Anita O'Keeffe Young,* still ambitious and aggressive at 60-plus, quit to express her opposition to cold, stolid Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad...
...million Canadians the gains were apparent: annual per-capita income during the decade soared from $940 to $1,500, and the work week shrank from 40 to 37.9 hours. In recognition of the new prosperity, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics will soon scrap the list of 300 commodities on which it bases the monthly cost-of-living index. Explained a D.B.S. official: "There is a whole new way of life to keep track...