Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rewritings between first draft and final text, went into the President's speech. Resolved that any speech he delivered to the General Assembly would be more than a mere retort to Soviet accusations. Ike called in C. D. Jackson, a vice president of TIME, Inc. and wartime civilian member of General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff, who had helped write the Atoms for Peace speech...
...through school, held dozens of odd jobs, e.g., selling the Milwaukee Journal. By 1916 he had managed to get into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk in the U.S. legation in neutral, window-on-the-world Bern, Switzerland. Murphy's two-year record was summed up by a colleague, a young diplomat named Allen Welsh Dulles: "Work, work, work...
...first wave of Japanese bombers over Manila 17 years ago turned John Linehan from a civilian Navy employee into a fighter. Linehan rushed repairs on a destroyer, burrowed through bomb rubble for precious parts, on Christmas Day watched U.S. ships slip safely out to sea ahead of the invading Japanese. Then, with Manila in flames, Linehan himself slipped out of the doomed city and joined a guerrilla band...
Other Pump Primers. With emotions ranging from cold to lukewarm, President Eisenhower signed these pump primers: a $1.8 billion emergency housing bill, a $5.5 billion highway construction bill and a $524 million federal civilian pay raise. In the congressional works last week was a $700 million increase in social security benefits-and it is threatened by veto...
...unemployment benefits for an average of 13 weeks to those who had exhausted their regular benefits. The Government poured more money into highway construction, eliminated the transportation tax on freight, began fattening pay envelopes in June with the first installment of $1.4 billion in pay raises for military and civilian employees. States and cities helped by raising their expenditures more than 15% for the first eight months this year, to $5.3 billion. Because of increased Government spending, the U.S. budget switched in nine months from a $3 billion surplus to a $2.8 billion deficit, thus becoming a major inflationary force...