Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals to form a united neutral Germany, and perhaps a neutral Central European bloc, have been voiced with increasing frequency. These proposals are predicated on what appears to be the reasonable belief that although Russia would like to communize Europe, allied strength will dissuade her from taking any step which would result in annihilation. The United States nuclear arsenal would guarantee the buffer region...
...extension," Prime Minister Kishi announced tartly, "is now an accomplished fact." But at week's end, disturbed by the public unrest over his police legislation, Kishi took the unprecedented step of consulting his three elderly living predecessors. Their advice: quit trying to jam through the unpopular police bill...
...over safety-regulations functions from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Headed by Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, retired Air Force lieutenant general, the new agency will control both military and commercial jet movements, try to set up round-the-clock, all-weather control of U.S. aircraft. Last week Quesada announced a significant step forward: he made a deal with the U.S. Air Force to station FAA observers in the military air control stations. For the first time, the flights of military and commercial planes will be closely coordinated...
...next step will be huge supersonic liners that can carry twice as many passengers as the jet at speeds of 1,500-2,000 m.p.h. and at altitudes of 60,000 ft. or higher. Both Lockheed and Boeing are already drawing plans for supersonic liners, could probably put one in the air in three years. But airframe manufacturers agree that the first supersonic liners will not appear for another ten years...
...last week announced plans to give shareholders outside the Hartford family a vote in how the family-controlled corporation will be run. Some 19% of A. & P. stock is now held by the public, but the shares carry no regular voting power. The move is the first step in what Wall Street believes is a plan for the heirs of A. & P. Founder George H. Hartford* to sell part of their 81% stock interest in the food chain (last fiscal year sales: $4.8 billion...