Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During their Bermuda conference last March, the President and Macmillan informally agreed to future meetings; a Macmillan trip to Washington had since been tentatively planned for next February. The speedup, arranged through regular State Department-Foreign Office channels (the President did not directly speak to Macmillan by telephone), came only after Russian threats had placed the cold war on a new and urgent basis. Subjects on the Eisenhower-Macmillan agenda...
Thus the U.S.. armed with the local atomic capability of the Sixth Fleet and the worldwide thermonuclear capability of Strategic Air Command, and assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker flew home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in London last week, where he had persuaded the other delegates to start mapping ways to broaden trade within the Commonwealth. In Ottawa he announced a drastic Canadian proposal to carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist that importing countries guarantee...
Speed Replaces Depth. Though often short on facts, the U.P. historically has compensated with brighter writing; its crisp, concise style has forced the A.P. in recent years to valiant efforts to refurbish its often stodgy copy. Style has become increasingly important as the technical speedup in communications sytems has all but eliminated the old-fashioned beat. At the same time, speed has increasingly displaced depth or even accuracy, as writing and checking time dwindle. The A.P., with more manpower, is widely accepted by editors as more accurate than the U.P. Day by day the A.P. also files more interpretive background...
...production workers laid off, Chrysler retooled and modernized its production lines, got tacit approval from the U.A.W. to increase output per man. Today, with 110,000 workers, Chrysler is making almost as many cars as in 1955. But this has also brought protests from union locals against the "speedup." To bring pressure on the corporation for a change in production quotas, the U.A.W. last week ordered Chrysler members to stop working overtime, thus forcing a cut in Chrysler production-and in productivity...