Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Work, Fewer Goods. There would be other big steps, the President made clear, as fast as the blueprints, the manpower and the administrators could be assembled and kinks straightened out. One step would be "a very rapid speedup" of military production. Salient items: five times as much aircraft production within a year (present rate: about 3,000 a year), four times as many combat vehicles, 4½ times as much electronic equipment. Taxes would be much higher. There would be a longer work week for production workers, fewer civilian goods...
...more leisurely days it took three years to turn out a sound Cheddar, 17 years to produce a worthy draft of bourbon, a generation or more to establish an enduring interscholastic tradition. Then the technicians and pressagents turned on the speedup. Last week, having lighted a fire under a pan of tradition, Boston University, with some help from Syracuse University, was preparing to prove that it could be cooked to a turn in no more than the time a mountain distiller would take to turn out a batch of Old Popskull...
...Immediate strengthening of U.S. forces in the Philippines, and a speedup in military aid for the Philippine government...
...William S. Guthrie quoted figures designed to show that there was a growing shortage of doctors. In 1905 and in 1949, he said, the number of medical students in the U.S. was almost the same-though the population had all but doubled. Guthrie contended that the World War II speedup in medical colleges should be continued...