Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even greater extent than in any other sport, the outcome of the traditional Yale race determines the success of the crew season. Capture of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in July would be the supreme achievement in rowing but before that there is a large debt to be paid back against the Elis on the Thames of Connecticut the second Saturday in June. And the Crimson has the crew...
Japan's fast-growing electronics industry scored a notable success. Under a threeyear, $8,000,000 contract, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. began turning out upward of 75,000 transistor radios, 800,000 transistors, and 1,000,000 vacuum tubes annually for International General Electric, to be resold under the I.G.E. name in Europe, Asia and Africa. I.G.E. was the second major U.S. electronics company to decide to make a deal this year with the Japanese. In April Motorola put on sale in the U.S. a $29.95 shirt-pocket-size transistor radio with most of its parts made in Japan...
Japan's success is based mainly upon low wages and high skills. The typical Japanese transistor worker is a deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...
...Upper Class) and non-17. Things are not that simple in the U.S., and in Author Packard's scheme there are Real U and Semi-U, both belonging to the college-bred "Diploma Elite"; then there are the "Supporting Classes,'' in turn subdivided into Limited-Success. Working Class and Real Lower (in his definitions, Packard rarely gets much more precise than to say that the Diploma Elite consists of "the big, active, successful people who pretty much run things" ). This structure, asserts Packard, is becoming increasingly rigid: within it. people are continually straining "to surround themselves with...
...Smith & Ows Poll. In the T.R. tradition, Ted Roosevelt leaped into postwar politics and made a success at it. He was elected and re-elected to the New York state assembly, wife Eleanor making 26 speeches on his behalf. He also helped found the American Legion. Like T.R., he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy-but where T.R. had used the job at century's turn to build up the fleet, Ted, in normalcy 1921-24, had to preside over disarmament negotiations. And when, in 1924, Ted put on a 15-speech -a-day campaign with the same...