Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEFENSE SPEEDUP, which has brought $1.2 billion in Air Force contracts to planemakers in three months, has spread to the Navy's air arm, which spent $700 million for new equipment in October alone. Biggest contracts: $194 million to United Aircraft Corp. for jet engines, propellers and helicopters; $165 million to Grumman Aircraft, mostly for its new supersonic F9F9 "Coke Bottle" jet fighter (TIME...
Unusually high attrition of maids and more appealing weekly student jobs have caused a speedup in deconversion of the cleaning system to heavy duty "dormitory crews...
...program designed to give a "nudge" to slow sections of the economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week announced a speedup in Government spending for military procurement, highway and airport construction and shipbuilding. A two-year, $385 million program of shipbuilding, said Weeks, will be the biggest peacetime project of its kind in history. In addition, the Maritime Board announced a $65.8 million deal with American President Lines,* to include construction of two new passenger-freighter vessels, purchase of four Mariner ships from the Maritime Administration and of two luxury liners (the President Cleveland and President Wilson) now operated...
East Germany's Communist leaders are extending themselves to ease a desperate shortage of doctors. Trained physicians are made citizens of special privilege, showered with medals and promotions to keep them from fleeing west. Medical schools are being expanded, and a speedup has been instituted to rush thousands of students ("quick-quacks," Westerners call them) through training in only twelve months. Still far short of needs, the Communists are also beckoning seductively to doctors in West Germany...
...George Abbotty that even the workers' slowdown gives the effect of a speedup; it is all so well managed that even the fumbles seem something new in footwork. There are the kind of peppy dance numbers that suggest a cheerleaders' carnival, and there is a great deal of music with an infectious, elementary lilt. A long-legged, gaminlike newcomer named Carol Haney dances like a dervish and is generally fun; Eddie Foy Jr. softshoes nostalgically and is generally helpful. John Raitt and Janis Paige make an attractive, a melodious, even a positively believable pair of lovers...