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...STRATEGIC STOCKPILE. This embraces 98 separate "strategic" materials, including many that have to be imported, going all the way down to ten troy ounces of precious ruthenium metal. Current value: $5.8 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Piles & Politics | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...conflict of interest built into the FAA's responsibilities for Washington's air service. For an industry like the airlines, in which growing Federal control is the only alternative to chaos, Dulles is an alarming precedent, and, as the outraged citizens of Baltimore have discovered, there's precious little to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friendship | 1/11/1962 | See Source »

Girl. To the working class she's a precious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: String 'Em Up | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price on early models and lose precious time in modifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: General Dynamics' Ordeal | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...years. The Republicans have made mistakes; the Democrats have too." Thus, he said, with the issue of segregation. Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell was "guilty of everything that Robert Kennedy is guilty of." On that basis, Waggonner won-but it was a victory in which national Democrats would find precious small comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana: Small Comfort | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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