Word: bitterness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TRADE. With the reciprocal trade agreements expiring next June 30, the Administration will push for a five-year extension and some liberalization. The prospect is for a long, bitter fight, beginning in the House Ways and Means Committee (now chaired by Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills), continuing on the floor of both houses, probably ending in little more than a one-year extension of the present agreements...
...particularly in military support. Despite the obvious argument for such aid as a corollary to defense, the first rumblings from returnees to the Hill indicate trouble. Among the probable troublemakers: Louisiana's Otto Passman, chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that controls the Mutual Security purse strings, a bitter foe of foreign...
...Tired, Aging Men." Such steadfast Republicans as Senate Minority Leader William Knowland and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith defended the Eisenhower-Dulles report as "informative" and "positive," but from the Republican-Portland Oregonian came a bitter criticism of "the spectacle of two tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning...
...never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet, the other architect of the Suez failure, fell from power in his turn, but France fought out its frustrations in Algeria, where 39,931 perished in the year's most bitter...
Profit Sharing. To clean up the bitter memories and the vast destruction left by Allied bombers, the government named Engineer-Lawyer Pierre Lefaucheux as boss. He refused to accept state subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management...