Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn with Dulles. When it came, he pushed his glasses down his nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention in the Suez crisis...
...credit pinch grows tighter, U.S. bankers are working harder than ever before to build up a new pool of capital from the humble sav ings account. While U.S. consumers have been saving between 6% and 7% of their income after taxes in the past few years, the savings fell considerably short of the amount bankers estimate they need to replenish their lendable funds. In an all-out effort to pull in more savings, the bankers are revolutionizing U.S. banking methods. Gone is the old-fashioned banker of granite mien and glassy-eyed stare...
...weeks last spring--but publications, radio, and music probably fit the pattern equally well. As the end product of students who came up the ranks learning-by-doing, this is natural and not necessarily a Bad Thing; but as a barrier to independent study, it must be taken into account in planning the curriculum, for it concerns over half the undergraduates...
...office of Vice President carries with it such handy advantages as a comfortable salary ($35,000 a year), comfortable expense account ($10,000), comfortable limousine (Cadillac), comfortable protection (Secret Service), as well as a certain stature. What it does not carry is the advantage of an official residence-not even an uncomfortable one. Vice President Richard Nixon, for example, lives in his own home ($41,000) in Washington's suburban Spring Valley. In his budget message last week, President Eisenhower suggested that Congress' "attention should be directed to the acquisition and maintenance of an official residence...
Despite all their advances, there is a practical limit to how much the railroads can accomplish alone. Railroaders complain bitterly that the Internal Revenue bureau's taxmen take no account of their progress. The new diesels and freight cars are still depreciated at 20-year rates, but because of the industry's rapidly advancing technology, they must often be junked in ten years or less. And the railroads are forced to pay many other taxes that competing industries avoid. While the New York Central's stations were once monuments to prosperity, now they are millstones, costing...