Word: surveyance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blip on their screens. The interloper, probably a rubbernecking Soviet submarine, remained faithful through the passage. Beyond the strait, the Manhattan faced the most dangerous leg of the journey -Viscount Melville Sound and, finally, ice-choked McClure Strait. An elaborate scouting system went into action. A Canadian DC-4 survey plane, with a special ice-scanning dome, surveyed the 1,100-mile passage. Photographs were taken of the route just ahead and dropped to the Manhattan for study. Two helicopters, based on the ship's fantail, flew ahead of the convoy, occasionally landing on the ice so that University...
...leaders of a coalition of black organizations are pressing for a guarantee of 2,500 journeymen's jobs in the Pittsburgh building trades over the next two years. After last week's march, the second in a month, contractors and unions offered 200 jobs but demanded a survey of the black community to see who wanted them. Incensed at such tactics, black leaders broke off negotiations. U.S. Labor Secretary George Shultz, responding to an appeal from Mayor Joseph Barr "to resolve the explosive situation," rushed a three-man mediating team to the tense city...
Sullivan, the only other person to appear before the hearing, testified that a survey by the City of 500 apartments showed that 67 per cent did not have any rent increase in 1968. Cronin used this testimony to show that an emergency situation does not exist in Cambridge and said "there is nothing to justify a declaration of emergency in Cambridge...
Three new courses-a survey of African history(AAS 10), the history of slavery(AAS 11), and an introduction to Ethiopian history and religion(AAS 12)-will be taught by Ephraim Isaac, lecturer here for two years and former director of the National Literacy Campaign in Ethiopia...
Judged by the sum of their special living allowances, bonuses and "hardship" pay, American businessmen working abroad are considerably better off than their stay-at-home counterparts. At least that is the conclusion of the National Industrial Conference Board in a report issued after a survey of 104 senior executives of U.S. corporations with international operations...