Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow might have a restraining influence on Peking, Nepal (to India's great surprise) has just signed a $7,000,000 aid agreement with the Soviet Union, and has been careful to express no official sympathy for the Tibetan rebels. But the most surprising change is a sudden shift in the long-embittered relations between India and Pakistan. Even though an Indian jet bomber was shot down last month when it violated Pakistani air space, both nations are doing fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like...
...International Photo-Engravers' Union and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed to a few thousand-to run over into overtime. Such stunts can double a pressman's pay, bring it to $15,000 a year...
...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
Lately Lear has shown that he is finally aware of such shortcomings. He has beefed up the service department, and a fortnight ago he shook up his top management to get in position for a concentrated attack on building markets and improving products. In the shift, Vice President James L. Anast, 40, former aide in Washington to Federal Aviation Boss Pete Quesada, moved up to president as Richard Mock became chairman of the executive committee...
...size of the individual school's delegation is getting smaller, at the same time the list of schools sending five or more students (including the bigger prep schools and the better public schools) has undergone a slight shift in favor of the private schools. Thirteen public schools contributed five or more boys to the Class of '58, only nine sent this many to '61. But in the same period, the number of prep schools sending five-man delegations rose from 19 to 25 (with 27 for the class of '60). Although public schools contributed more to '62 than to previous...