Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...steel industry. Steel bowed to the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray and granted his near-million United Steelworkers an average 16?-an-hour wage increase. Steel then promptly raised its prices 5½%. A fifth round in steel, however, should not set off another round for everybody; all basic industries, except steel and John Lewis' coal diggers, had already got a raise since the Korean war began. Before Ewan Clague's cost-of-living index inched up again, there was a good chance that some kind of wage and price controls would be clamped on. When that happened...
...however, the U.S. is committed wholeheartedly to Course No. 5, the vast majority of U.N. nations will probably go along, because they have no chance whatever to defend themselves against Communist aggression unless they have U.S. help. Determination of basic anti-Communist policy is not and cannot be a question of achieving agreement between the anti-Communist allies. It is a question of U.S. decision, made with a decent regard for the opinions of the allies, but made essentially by the U.S., which alone has the power to make the alliance a reality...
...enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s reverses, said MacArthur, was sheer weight of numbers. "As far as I can see," said MacArthur, "no strategical or tactical mistakes were made of any basic proportion...
Convinced of the basic advantages of film ("Live TV depends on actors ad-libbing in front of a live camera"), Producer Morgan started Fireside Theater in 1949, from the start had a sponsor (Ivory Soap, Duz, Crisco). Originally, each show consisted of two separate, 15-minute playlets, but this technique had a serious drawback: "People who didn't like the first show sometimes switched before the second one came...
...scientist's brain was as good as ever. In 1948 he became nationally known as co-discoverer (with Dr. Giulio Lattes) of the man-made meson, a basic atomic particle produced by the 184-inch cyclotron at the University of California (TIME, March 15, 1948). About the same time his disease was finally diagnosed correctly as berylliosis (beryllium poisoning...