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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many reasons to duck all-out candidacy and none to proclaim it at this time. In his short time in office, he has pushed the newly Democratic legislature into remarkable action e.g., approval of the $1.8 billion water-resources development program (TIME, June 29), a $61 million income tax boost appropriated to close the budget gap. He has helped abolish California's party-damaging system of primary-ballot cross-filing, has brought stability to the long-fragmented Democratic Party. But his job has just begun: the statewide water-development plan, for example, must still be approved by the electorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Brown? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

First down the ramp was Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, who agreed that the compromise 1959 Labor-Management Act (TIME, Sept. 14) "contains many unfair and unsound and one-sided provisions," promised more favorable legislation, including a boost of minimum wages from $1 to $1.25 per hour in the next session. As for his own record, he had no regrets: "Jimmy Hoffa may not approve of me, but I do not apologize for having earned his hostility." The delegates gave Kennedy a rousing, standing ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three for the Show | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...scientific times; their enrollments have stagnated. This week the Ford Foundation, which overlooked the field up to now, marched in with a massive $19.05 million gift to four institutes of technology (Caltech, Carnegie, Case, M.I.T.) and six universities (U.C.L.A., Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin). The goal: a sharp boost for pace setters, and so for all U.S. engineering schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Windfall for Engineers | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...nation's harried railroads, who hoped for a boost in booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel: The Strike's Blow | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Economists were cheered by the signs of the U.S. businessman's confidence in the future. The latest survey by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission, taken after the strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Good--So Far | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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