Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army's Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, medics demonstrated a portable, air-conditioned hospital-aseptic operating room and all. Under a miniature mushroom cloud that signified a theoretical A-bomb attack, while scores of "casualties" splashed with blood-red paint waited for treatment, the 20-bed unit was made ready within half an hour...
Added Pressure. The Army calls its new hospital MUST, from Medical Unit Self-Contained Transportable. Impressed observers could suggest only one potential drawback. What would happen under a strafing attack? Would a few bullet holes cause leaks in the walls and let the whole pneumatic construction collapse? The Army had not overlooked the obvious; added air pressure can compensate for most holes...
...UNITED AUTO WORKERS: Walter Reuther, 57, has two capable subalterns: intellectual Leonard Woodcock, 54, chief of the union's G.M. bargaining unit, and British-born Douglas Fraser, 47, an affable bargainer who deals with Chrysler and American Motors...
...effort to have a "more distinct separation of communal facilities from the rest of the House," the dining hall, common rooms and library will be built together as a single unit, Trottenberg said. He added that his committee hopes that this will encourage greater use of these areas...
...British Iron and Steel Board now estimates that output per unit of labor in British steel in "probably only 50% of the U.S. level." In the port of London, there are 444 different employers of dockworkers--each one is too small to use large scale machinery, each one refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which...