Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: EVERYONE in this country must have been concerned at the demonstration in Peru against the U.S. and Vice President Nixon, who is our good will ambassador. But it certainly was not wise for the Vice President to go against the advice of the people who knew the area and begged him not to try and keep his appointment at the university. Like all young men. however, he wanted to prove his courage. This is understandable but sometimes leads to unfortunate results...
...best leaders in the armed services. The bill provides an increase ranging from 6% to possibly 60% for nearly all servicemen in uniform at least two years, and sets up extra-pay responsibility grades for officers and proficiency ratings for enlisted men. ¶ The Senate passed (46-36) an area redevelopment bill, sponsored by Maine's Frederick Payne and Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, that provides $375 million (compared to the $50 million President Eisenhower requested) to assist depressed communities suffering serious economic reverses and general and individual hardships because of technological changes or the departure of industry...
Before the Senate labor-management investigating committee, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s top labor expert, Charles A. Schimmat, last week reluctantly told a small and ugly story. In 1952, when the C.I.O. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union was signing up New York area supermarket employees in a successful drive for a 40-hour work week,* Schimmat cooked up a plan for keeping 16,000 clerks in 700 A. & P. stores working on the same old 45-hour week...
...into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime with a rifle...
Pollster Gallup had one note of caution. Early in 1946 Democrats held a 55% edge in the same area of nationwide congressional preference, but toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...