Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turnaround. In about nine years the Navy has tried to retrain 48,000 problem personnel, succeeded in restoring 14,000 to duty-enough to man four big aircraft carriers. Last week the Elliott psychology project was being studied at the Navy's two other retraining commands, Portsmouth, N.H. and Norfolk, Va., to see whether this rate can be bettered...
...Congress pushed through an impressive list of major bills (see box). By reducing spending, stopping the expansion of Government, it made the critical turnaround from 20 years of New and Fair Deals. But the 83rd took no broad, policymaking action on such basic issues as taxes, trade, agriculture and labor. These failures caused some Republican disappointment and elicited some Democratic jeers. The record of the 83rd, however, was a lesson in how hard it is to change the direction of the U.S. Government without rocking the boat...