Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...
...pace of House competition is slated for an additional step-up next month with contests in swimming, volleyball, boxing, wrestling, and fencing. Four multi-House swimming meets are on the agenda and a full schedule for volleyball squads is drawn up. Boxing, wrestling, and fencing competition will be in tournament form...
...played a hand in some other big reorganizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange in 1938. Now, as chairman of Curtiss-Wright's executive committee, Shields's next job will be to help President Jordan lure new aircraft designers and production men to Curtiss-Wright to step up experimental work in jets, turboprops and guided missiles...
Single Shift. The power shortage was born during the war, when private utilities had to cancel their expansion programs. It became worse under the demands of the postwar boom. Not only did private industry step up its power consumption by 13%, but householders increased their demands with the installation of new washing machines, television sets, and a dozen other electrical gadgets that they had not been able to buy before...
...Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...