Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onetime Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going...
Last week, in the new Catania industrial zone, a $4,000,000 steel fabricating plant went into operation. Nearby, close to Messina, work started on a $5,000,000 plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly...
...well go into stockpile production with Thor. Reason for production of both, with resulting complication in supporting equipment, etc.: the U.S. needs IRBMs as fast as it can get them. Historical parallel: production of both B-17 and B-24 bombers in World War II. ¶ Flying into Augusta for a two-hour conference with President Eisenhower, Secretary McElroy announced himself "very hopeful" that the U.S. will be able to keep its commitment to provide Britain with IRBMs during 1959, begin to stock other NATO members "earlier than had been expected...
...acre farm outside Plainfield, Wis. where George Gein was scratching out a living, the undisputed head of the family was his dominating wife Augusta. To her sons Henry and Edward, Augusta Gein railed ceaselessly about the vices of modern women?their short skirts, artificial hair waves, powder and lipstick. During heavy rains she would read to the family the story of Noah and the flood, prophesied another flood to wash out women's sins. She made no secret of her favoritism for her younger son. Eddie Gein (rhymes with wean) became a mama's boy, hating other women as mother...
...comfortless frame farmhouse (no electricity, no plumbing) became a lonelier place after the deaths of his father 1940 and bachelor brother Henry 1944. After Augusta Gein had a stroke, Eddie nursed his mother for a year until she died of a second stroke in 1945. That left Eddie all alone with memories of mother. He closed off the sitting room, filled with family portraits and other reminders of the dead, and the room where is mother had passed her last year. He did not bother to work the farm, supported himself with odd jobs for neighbors...