Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pride's early promise was such that he was among the handful of Reserve officers accepted in the postwar Navy. He was assigned to the battleship Arizona, in charge of a small air unit. His first planes were French Nieuports-war relics with the reliability of dime-store watches. They took off from a short runway built over the Arizona's forward gun turret; it was a good way to end up in the drink, and at least once, Pride did. There was little improvement when Pride's outfit got British Sopwith Camels. Recalls Pride: "When they...
...politics. He got his LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate) and the biggest mechanical...
...plan in this respect merely adds teeth to the reserve requirements of the 1951 Selective Service Act. Under that act, all inductees or enlistees contract for an eight-year military obligation. After serving two-years a man still is supposed to serve six years in a Ready Reserve unit. In practice, however, there are no teeth in the act which can force him to attend training. The new bill would add compulsion by providing that men who refuse to participate in required training will be subject to loss of retirement or promotion benefits and to discharge under conditions "other than...
Criterion Defined. Can U.S. industry compete with low-cost foreign labor? Yes, said Percy. "The true criterion of cost is not dollars or cents per hour of labor but rather total labor cost per unit produced." For example, when Bell & Howell paid its workers 40? an hour years ago, it turned out a movie camera for $49.95. Now, though it pays upwards of $2 an hour, the company still can make a $49.95 camera, and a better one at that. Reason: "The highly paid American worker has become the most efficient in the world, two to ten times as productive...
...telephone has an amplifying unit so that the cook can carry on a conversation from anywhere in the kitchen without touching the phone. Heavy roasts can be moved by nudging a traveling tray that hangs from the ceiling; food can be carried outdoors on a serving cart powered by a battery. With dual-control ovens, a meal can be started in the kitchen and finished from an adjoining patio. For barbecues in the house there is a special gadget that passes charcoal or hickory smoke through the oven...