Word: blueprinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space. The President sent Congress a careful blueprint for space agencies and space exploration that is bold but durable and sensible enough to last as a work guide for decades...
...electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing...
...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
...Cooley (D-N.C.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, called the Eisenhower program a blueprint for bankruptcy...
...ROAD PLANNERS have already pumped $1.4 billion into contracts for building 41,000-mile federal highway net. Another $924 million is set aside for roads still in the blueprint stage, and $932 million has gone into preliminary engineering and buying rights...