Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret, but it is an open secret on Capitol Hill that the fellow Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower's legislative program, will go along pretty much with what the President wants for the rest of the session. And the decision, in turn, has signaled the widest and bitterest split in the Democratic Party in years...
...Senate went along with the House, approved the Administration's request to raise the interest limit on privately financed mortgages for veterans' homes from...
Prowling the uneasy aerial no man's land between East and West one clear day last week, a U.S. Navy P4M Mercator patrol plane lumbered along at 7,000 ft. above the Sea of Japan, 55 nautical miles east of the North Korean coast. A few minutes after noon, Tail Gunner Donald E. Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked...
...Admiral Withington in Tokyo and learned the embarrassing truth: the Mercator lacked no parts. Its nose and top guns had been dismantled to make room for top-secret radar and infra-red gear, used in mapping and aerial photography. And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon...
...points. The Mercator's flight was part of the hazardous duty that crewmen long ago came to accept as normal in the Asian aerial no man's land. Since the Korean armistice of 1953, Communist and U.S. planes have exchanged fire no fewer than 14 times along Asian coasts. The grim results: 36 U.S. airmen lost, ten Communist fighter pilots shot down...