Word: timings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal days, John Eisenhower's wife, with only part-time help, runs her own house in Gettysburg (at the edge of Ike's farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a week at the Red Cross office-filing, typing, helping with organizational chores. She is a qualified nurse's aid, serves part-time in the local hospital, plays bridge with the girls, attends P.T.A. meetings, keeps her Washington social life to a minimum, and on the whole, keeps her children from...
...very practical person," says her father, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., "but at the same time, she manages to get enjoyment out of everything she does." In India last week, Barbara was doing just that. She went for a bumpy ride on an elephant with her husband ("Johnny kept rocking the box"), shopped for souvenirs for her children, picked up a few saris for herself ("I love them, but someone will have to show me how to wear them"), visited a village and Red Cross headquarters, chatted with India's leading lady political and social workers at a reception...
...contributed to the blurring. Within itself, the Administration is divided on the steel strike. Labor Secretary James Mitchell favors a settlement on almost any terms, played a behind-scenes role in California Steelmaker Edgar Kaiser's defection from steel's solid front to make a separate settlement (TIME, Nov. 9). Opposed to Mitchell are White House economic counselors led by Presidential Adviser Raymond Saulnier, who insist that the U.S. public has a stake in seeing to it that the settlement terms are non-inflationary.*Largely because of this split, the Administration has failed to explain clearly enough what...
...price boosts has brought not only price upcreep at home but also loss of export markets abroad. Western Europe's rebuilt industrial plants, more modern on the average than the U.S.'s, confront U.S. industry with increasingly rugged competition. In late 1958, the U.S., for the first time since the igth century, became a net importer of steel instead of a net exporter...
...arbitrator himself conceded that the old decentralized system was inefficient and costly. ¶A Republic Steel plant at Gadsden, Ala. from reducing the ratio of boilermakers' helpers to boilermakers, although methods and equipment had changed so drastically over the years that helpers were idle much of the time...