Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years and up to 25%. The compromise bill provides four years, up to 20%. ¶ The Senate overrode (69-20) Ike's veto of a minor bill raising basic wages at the Kittery (Me.)-Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard to a $2.50-an-hour par with the Boston Naval Yard. The action marked the first time in six years that either congressional branch overrode an Eisenhower veto. Later, the House vote to override (202-180) was less than the necessary two-thirds, keeping intact the President's record of never having a vetoed bill passed into...
FIRST ALL-RADAR AIRWAY, in which ground controllers can "see" every plane in skies, will open between New York and Washington by October, soon after will be extended south to Norfolk and North to Boston, later to Chicago. CAA is installing 16 long-range radar ground stations in New York-Washington-Chicago triangle...
...Marrying Sam of the corporate merger business is a Boston pawnbroker's Harvard-educated son named Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend. In the past four years Sonnabend has mated a score or more moneymaking companies with money losers, using the losers' losses as a tax offset against the moneymakers. In so doing, Sonnabend, who learned to wheel and deal as a Boston and Miami real estate operator, has gained control of a hotel, manufacturing and retail empire with 1957 sales of $179 million. Top earners: Hotel Corp. of America with operating revenues of $63 million, Botany Mills with sales...
...want to see what captivated New Yorkers back in the early 1920's, go to Dulcy, which the Boston Summer Theatre has dusted off for the week. It strikes us as a period piece today, but George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly wrote it as a contemporary satire on the middle-class West-chester County...
Outside Yvette's tiny house in the tiny hamlet of Mont-d'Origny (pop. 1,500), the Battle of the Bulge raged a hundred miles to the east in the snowy Ardennes, Hiroshima was bombed, China fell to the Communists, bandits stole a million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields...