Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond Rock-Bottom. First came Congress. Into the White House Cabinet Room early one morning trooped 27 legislative leaders, including the ranking members of the House's and Senate's prime committees-Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Armed Services. Object of the meeting with Ike: to hear of a foreign aid program about to begin its inauspicious way through the congressional mill...
...rank nor frankness could move the leaders to show much enthusiasm for the foreign aid program. They were unimpressed when Ike reported that his foreign aid proposal could be slashed $500 million through economies in military purchasing. They were not much more impressed when he listed as his rock-bottom figures $2.8 billion for mutual defense, another $1.08 billion for economic aid. Word leaked out that Georgia's powerful Richard Russell had congratulated the President on the foreign aid trimming and broadly implied that this might prove that the budget was still vulnerable in other areas...
...20th century minerals germanium and uranium now being mined in the Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life that the Europeans bought on Africa's west coast, and sold mostly in the slave markets of America, was the same commodity that centuries before...
From Washington's economists last week came news that the slipping U.S. home-building industry may finally have hit bottom and bounced back. Preliminary estimates of housing starts in April show an increase of about 20,000 units more than in March, the first sizable increase in eight months. To give the bounce even more lift last week, the House passed and sent to the Senate an omnibus housing bill that will 1) sharply lower Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage down payments, and 2) increase the mortgage buying power of the Government's Federal National Mortgage Association...
...interpretation. This necessity, however, does not in any way detract from the quality of the picture, but in fact adds an extra dimension to its interest. If I may still be permitted to voice a bit of sociological jargon of my own, the story of De Paris seems at bottom to represent the conflict between a very tightly organized society and one of its member who is clearly and deliberately unacceptable...