Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...
...President Eisenhower directly? In both cases the older, cooler heads were still saying no, and the younger, hotter heads were saying yes. Whatever view prevailed (the noes had it last week), there will be a heavy overtone of individual and party politics on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill throughout the second session of the 84th. It is likely to last until the Democrats hurry to Chicago for the opening of their national convention...
While arguments about agricultural polity were being assembled and polished for the coming battle on Capitol Hill, the Bureau of the Census last week came forward with some hard facts about U.S. farms and farmers. Reporting on its latest census of agriculture, the bureau noted some significant shifts in life on the farm between 1950 and 1954. Items...
...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...
...more or less as a hobby while he was working as a radio director at CBS, and started to bring Italy's lively Cetra opera recordings to the U.S. as a sideline. The sideline grew into a busy firm (Cetra-Soria), which five years later Soria sold to Capitol in a deal that reportedly involved $1 million. In 1953 Britain's giant Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., whose position in Europe is comparable to RCA's in the U.S., was looking around for a new U.S. outlet after getting divorced from Columbia. EMI eventually hitched up with Dario...