Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, by a 47-45 vote, passed and sent to the House the year's weirdest bill: a Democratic-sponsored measure to establish, in prosperous 1959, a federal youth-conservation corps modeled after the New Deal's Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps. Under its terms, some 150,000 males, aged 16 to 21, would eventually serve for terms ranging from six months to two years, receive $60 a month, plus room, board and transportation. The bill had about as much chance of beating a veto as the Washington Senators have of winning the World Series...
...when the New York Herald was sold to Frank A. Munsey, the Paris Herald was tossed into the deal. To Munsey it was an unexpected windfall; the war, with its tide of Yanks, had swollen circulation to 400,000 and brought untabulated prosperity. Munsey found a cool $1,000,000 cash in the Paris Herald's bank account. But the prosperity was short-lived. Munsey pared the Paris budget to the marrow, handed the paper over as a dubious dividend when he sold the New York Herald in 1924 to Ogden Reid's New York Tribune...
...executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign the bill, they would see to it that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision he disliked...
...become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think of himself as the Thai Charles de Gaulle, but with Oriental variation he had also about him a good deal of Manhattan's late effervescent Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...deal came too late to refurbish the shabby hotel for this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast...