Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign to tell New York's 16,000,000 citizens about fallout dangers and what can be done about them...
...G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many...
...tiger"-in the form of screening committees set up in General Ayub's anticorruption campaign-began by putting the government's own house in order. By July 1 more than 2,000 civil service officials, clerks and policemen had been punished: through dismissal, retirement or demotion. Even the top officials heading the screening committees were themselves investigated by a Cabinet committee made up of the Foreign Minister and the Ministers of Law, Interior and Finance. Next in line for a thorough checking of their activities since 1947: Pakistan's politicians. Businessmen, currently operating under a promise...
...main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average of one South Vietnamese a day, frequently hammering lonely victims to death and then hanging their battered bodies in trees under a red flag. But not since 1957 had the Communists dared attack any Americans...
Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson won his first victory last week in his campaign to remove the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds. The House Ways & Means Committee approved a bill to permit the President to ignore the ceiling when necessary to sell bonds. The committee tacked on an amendment expressing the "sense of Congress" that the Federal Reserve Board should expand the nation's credit supply by pegging the price of Government bonds. Cried Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is an attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. This...