Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash programs reminiscent of Great Depression days (see Politics...
...know who is boss, so William Hartack Sr. wielded a switch with old-fashioned regularity to keep his kids in line. He had three children?Bill Jr., 8, Evelyn, 9, and Maxine. 1? when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack recalls. "I don't believe in letting no kid have...
...hump is the fact that conventional U.S. power is so cheap-and nuclear power so expensive-that the U.S. itself has no pressing domestic need for a crash program. Thus, AEC orients its program toward the laboratory, has considered well over 100 different ways of producing nuclear power, and is concentrating on small experimental reactors to test the most likely methods. AEC hopes to foster an industry producing possibly 95 million kw. of nuclear power by 1980, or 25% of the estimated total power demands of the U.S. But U.S. industry is learning, to its sorrow, that there...
...work for General Motors, rose to be assistant treasurer at a salary of $35.000 a year before going to Du Pont as financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob. Du Font's top financial man. Young made his first million by selling short just before the 1929 crash, set up a brokerage firm with an old friend. By picking up securities that looked worthless to most people, then stepping in to run the properties involved, he added another $5,000,000 to his bank roll by 1937. But Young was not merely after money. "Anyone...
...Young married Anita Ten Eyck O'Keeffe. sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe; their only daughter, Eleanor, was killed in a private airplane crash...