Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal is to end those institutions and circumstances that artificially support inequality. In Britain's rich agglomerate of class barriers (some actual and some psychological), there is a payload to exploit. But the new policy might kick back in Labor's face by alienating middle-class and upper working class votes. where wage differentials are much prized...
Pushed through by Adenauer's iron will, the bill was less than all he desired. Unable to get the Upper House to agree to 18 months service for conscripts and unwilling to accept a counteroffer of twelve months, Adenauer settled for a law which fails to specify how long draftees must serve but nonetheless gets the defense machinery to work. West German officials swear that they will keep their promise to have 96,000 men in uniform before the end of the year and a 500,000-man force in NATO...
Unrestrained Fireball. Shooting it up to the proper height is not much of a problem, but no one knows how its nuclear warhead will behave when it is exploded in the near-vacuum of the upper atmosphere. With little air to resist its expansion, the unrestrained fireball may grow to enormous size. Atomic particles and radiation that are stopped by dense air may be flung far enough to do damage at a considerable distance...
...purpose of the Aerobee-Hi is to probe the upper atmosphere during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. Naval spokesmen deny the persistent rumor that it is being groomed as the second stage of the three-stage rocket that will place the U.S. satellite on its earth-circling orbit...
...change, announced last week, triggered a youth movement in G.M.'s upper echelons. Under Pontiac Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...