Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Terrible Price." Wearing worried frowns, the top brass of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council-speaking for 15 million organized workers-gathered around their huge, elliptical conference table in Washington to survey the damage and see what they could do. "There are too many people," said the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, "who will use this current expose of Teamsters' corruption to exploit their own purposes-to try to restrict the entire labor movement." The Electrical Workers' Jim Carey added: "It is absolutely necessary that we denounce and renounce such characters or we will pay a terrible price...
...Ladies' Home Journal, Newshen Margaret Parton, after a studious survey of some mountains of gold, announced a list of the U.S.'s ten richest men and her estimates of their fortunes: No. 1: Texas' bachelor Wheeler-Dealer Sid W. Richardson, 65, $700 million. No. 2: Aluminum Co. of America's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89 and now a bustling Florida realty tycoon, $450 million. No. 3: Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton...
...Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
...plan is being ramrodded by energetic, bottle-bald Maurice Lemaire, 61, State Secretary for Industry, who gained fame by his postwar reconstruction of the French National Railroads, which he bossed from 1946 to 1949. Just back from an on-the-sand survey, Lemaire optimistically figures that the Sahara can produce at a rate of 3,500,000 bbl. a year for France by 1958, although there are now only three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud...
...will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow of produce to market, stabilize nationwide food prices for farmers and consumers. ¶ It contracted with the Norwegian government to plan industrial development in three northern provinces ravaged in World War II. A.D.L. will survey the region's unused hydroelectric power sites and untapped mineral wealth, try to attract such U.S. industries as aluminum which need cheap power...