Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before leaving for other jobs. They also manage to throw in enough anonymous professorial gossip to make sure that their blast is an academic bestseller. Grouses one professor-hiring department chairman, of the candidates sent him from the great universities: "We took him on the basis of the enthusiastic support of an outstanding professor at Harvard. That's very important. If Princeton pushes a man, I know it means I'll have to look somewhere else. I don't trust Columbia either, or Chicago. With one or two exceptions in each department, those bastards are shysters; they...
...from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
...along with 300,000 G.M. workers. Many of them threatened to stay out until they settled such local issues as washup time, shift-preference procedure. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther said all GM. locals were on authorized strikes, "free to press for settlement of local issues and grievances [with] full support of the international union." G.M. feared local issues would keep thousands of workers away for days to come...
...metals controls is that agreements tend to set prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...
Speaking to a Cleveland meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute, Glossbrenner cited some evidence to support his stand: "Soviet production has tripled in the last ten years. Fifty-six million tons of steel were made in 1957. Sixty million tons are expected to be made this year. The Soviets this year will come within 25 million tons of matching our actual production...