Word: ten-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indeed charge up to 30% for patent rights on everything from cowboy hats to rubber falsies, at a time when Japanese businessmen would pay any price to get back into world markets. But the fact is that U.S. industrial tie-ups pulled Japan out of the rubble, filled a ten-year research gap and boosted the nation's export potential...
...ROAD PROGRAM has hit a dead end. The plan to raise cash from bonds issued by a separate Government corporation and thus keep from raising the national debt was attacked by conservative Democrats as "financial legerdemain." The Administration is now resigned to the prospect that its $101 billion, ten-year highway program will be sharply scaled down. Nevertheless, chances are that the final bill will call for federal spending considerably above the present $6 billion a year. To help pay the bill, the 2?-a-gal. federal gasoline tax may be hiked...
...most solid base for the new enthusiasm and optimism of cement men is President Eisenhower's proposal for a $101 billion, ten-year state and federal highway program. It is the biggest reason why they are ordering enough rock-crushers, conveyor belts, tube mills, rotary kilns and other equipment to boost the industry's capacity by about 30% in the next five years...
...thought the fears "just plain silly." Was not the telephone industry the prime example of automation, with its increased use of dial phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased by 159,000, or 79%. In the same ten-year period, while vast strides were made with electronic business machines, the number of accountants jumped by 71%. As for the auto industry, Reuther's own stamping ground. Fairless noted that, despite big gains in automation, the number of auto workers doubled in 14 years-"and for every...
...aspect of the plan which has chiefly drawn the charge of UMT is, of course, the provision for direct entry into the Reserve Forces with only a six-month training period. Under this plan, a militarily qualified man between the ages of 17 and 19 could, by entering a ten-year military obligation in the reserve of the Army, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, or in the Army National Guard, serve only six months of actual training. After this he would serve for nine and a half years in the Ready Reserves...