Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive the warnings home, auto plants around the U.S. were gradually reacting to the slower sales and resultant pile-up of 1956 models. At Ford, G.M. and Chrysler last week, production was cut as much as 10% on some models, and 14,000 workers were laid...
...figures, just released, on a six-year drive to treat all cases of severe mental illness as promptly and intensively as possible. Doctors found a telling comparison between Kansas' experience and that of seven other Midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin) that have been slower in getting their intensive-treatment campaigns rolling...
aviation must be closely regulated with a new system of carefully laid out super highways for jets and a network of secondary "roads" set aside for other, slower planes. The alternative is to hamper the growth of aviation and greatly increase the possibility of disaster for those...
...Miles himself once condemned as "the merry game of brochure-manship"-covering up basic deficiencies with torrents of pressagentry and hopeful prediction. Despite its good flight, the Comet III is but a prototype of a prototype that is to fly sometime in 1958, will be both slower, smaller and shorter in range than Douglas' DC-8 or Boeing's 707 jet transports...
...that year, labor made its first entry into the national political arena since the abortive 1924 campaign when the CIO endorsed FDR's candidacy. The AFL was somewhat slower but no less fervent in its political affiliations. Although it did not back Truman in 1948, it allowed its top men to aid the Democrats on an unofficial basis. The struggle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill made the actions of the LLPE and the PAC even more partisan and, in 1952, both AFL and CIO conventions formally approved Stevenson. American labor had finally, and perhaps irrevocably, entered the ground upon...