Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower issued a warning. The warning: go slow on bills designed to cure the recession with heavy spending; the Democrats are trying to spend too much too soon. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland...
...balance the auto industry's piecemeal emigration and to make the city less vulnerable to auto slumps. In February Mayor Louis C. Miriani created a high-level citizens' panel, the Detroit Industrial and Commercial Development Committee, dedicated to "maintaining and improving the economic climate," and its basic aim is to attract new industry...
...broad as De Gaulle himself. You'll remember what Pinay did in the case of Morocco-as soon as the National Assembly took its All Saints' Day vacation in 1955, he gave the Moroccans their independence. In one week Pinay would have a program. Its first aim would be to end the fighting in Algeria...
...boost in page-ad rates from $200 to $1,200. Now that the magazine is aloft and gathering speed, its young staffers are even talking of selling 1,000,000 copies an issue by the end of 1958 Says Space Salesman Heagy: "It doesn't hurt to aim high...
...University of Texas, White joined the A.P. in 1926, had become its general night editor in Manhattan headquarters before he went off to cover the war in Europe. Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed up for his column as soon as it was offered...