Word: scale
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Power's recommendations: immediate funds to get SAC's B-52 bombers ready for a round-the-clock airborne alert, large-scale procurement of the B70 Mach 3 bomber, and a big military space program -"control of space may well mean control of the globe in a future war." Power was seconded on the space argument by Major General John B. Medaris, chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command. In an interview with Missiles and Rockets, on the eve of his retirement, Medaris blasted as "utter nonsense" the Administration's dividing the space program into civilian...
Scraping up $15,000, they rented an abandoned British army warehouse, began selling eggs and chickens on a big scale. For added income, they got exclusive dealerships for feed and livestock equipment. Though they lost $1,900 in their first year, they were in the black, with gross sales of $140,000 in 1957, and Stevenson quit Esso...
...Lieberman's reckoning, U.S. schools will improve only when the teachers take charge. His plan: a single powerful professional organization with full responsibility for educational policy on a nation wide scale. His model: the American Medical Association, which keeps a sharp eye on the certification and standards of physicians throughout the nation. "We must see to it," says Lieberman, "that nonprofessional determination of the curriculum is as unthinkable as nonprofessional determination of the techniques of brain surgery...
...national tragedy" that the N.E.A. ("low in aim and weak in execution") is dominated by school administrators, that the A.F.T. is fruitlessly tied to labor unions. Merged, one dynamic organization could really tackle such tasks as collective bargaining for teachers-first locally, later on a national scale...
...planters' hold was further loosened in 1945-46, when the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union organized the plantations and mills and conducted a successful 79-day strike. There was a four-month strike in 1958, and today Hawaiian growers pay the highest annual wage scale in the sugar world ($15.63 a day v. $3.80 in Puerto Rico). But there is a compensation: the union cooperates to eliminate unnecessary jobs through early retirement and even repatriation of late-arriving Filipino immigrants. Result: the Hawaiian sugar industry is close to being automated. Only 13,000 production workers...