Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rise of Mass Marketeers. But credit was not the only power behind the boom. In 1955 businessmen saw the speedup of a revolution in U.S. merchandising methods as retailers learned to pare selling costs, thus get more goods to more customers...
...first B-52 out of Wichita early next year, build up to a rate of 2½ planes a week. Now it will get Wichita in high gear sooner, and build up to about 3 1/3 planes every week. Even so, it will still be months before the speedup shows in the number of B-52s in service because of the inevitable lead-time between order and delivery on everything from raw materials to electronic equipment. Said a Boeing engineer: "A lot of heavy forgings go into a B-52, and forging presses still aren't a dime...
...week's end, Washington buzzed with reports of a speedup in production of Boeing's four-jet KC-135 tanker and a pair of new supersonic fighters, McDonnell's F101 and Lockheed's 1,000-m.p.h. F-104, still in the test-flying stage. For the B-52 program alone, the acceleration would probably increase the Air Force budget for fiscal 1955-56 somewhere between $300 and $400 million...
...Darien breach is probably a job for another generation. But Nixon guessed that even closing the Central American gaps would take 15 to 25 years at the present rate. The speedup he recommended to Washington will-he hopes-finish the road to Panama in four years...
...mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close the gap and pave the rest of the highway-now mostly gravel-through that country...