Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope, Not Expectation. As the summit was approached, the men who will meet there were clarifying their objectives (see box). Said the Soviet Union's Bulganin: "The lessening of tension should be the aim of this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...
...unknown person who shot and wounded Walter Reuther some years ago taken better aim, America would not now be headed straight down the drain. As a result of the recent negotiations, my present and future automobile will be British...
...lessen the burden on the economy, federal spending was cut. As it cut expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration cut taxes. Since Jan. 20, 1953, a total of $7.4 billion has been pared off the federal tax bill. But the Administration has failed to realize a long-held Republican aim: it has not balanced the budget...
...Following the lead of Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox and Paramount, M-G-M announced that it will take the big jump into TV next fall with a weekly half-hour show over ABC called The M-G-M Parade. Its aim: to sell "the studio's forthcoming pictures to be played exclusively in motion-picture theaters...
...Adhemar," as his admirers in the industrially powerful state of São Paulo call him, has long wanted to "take over the management of Brazil, Inc." In 1950, however, he deferred to the late Getulio Vargas, instead took aim on 1955. Last year his ambitions suffered a crippling blow; running for governor in São Paulo, as a fitting steppingstone to the presidency, Adhemar lost. After that, whenever a reporter whipped out a notebook, Adhemar insisted that he would run only if drafted and thus forced to "bow to the will of the people...