Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which he dealt with in this year's legislature-Democratic in both houses by the largest majority since New Deal days-by pushing through tax boosts that set off a short-lived taxpayer revolt. In Protestant-majority Washington, Rosellini shivers at the fear of a Catholic presidential candidate calling attention to the Catholics already holding Washington's key jobs: Governor, speaker of the house, president of the senate, secretary...
...grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal in this fashion: "I distinguish between the Germany of yesterday and the Germany of today...
President Frondizi thus won time to deal with the broad spectrum of opposition in the armed forces. He fired most of his Cabinet. Notable exceptions: Interior Minister Alfredo Vitolo and the three service secretaries, who were deemed needed to pressure the forces into discipline. Next day Vitolo summoned all the political parties except the Communists and Peronistas, outlined the threat of coup, got all but one of them to agree to support President Frondizi and civilian government against the military. Said the Socialists, who the night before had been demanding Frondizi's resignation: "We are for legality...
...more, for Atlantic, the "poetic license" that has given the weather bureau fits for years; not even any female forecasters. "Atlantic is in the service business, and in our service stations the customers deal with men," said Ad Director Dick Borden. "Naturally," he argued, in a massive non sequitur, "they would prefer to see men weathercasters on television." So Atlantic proposes to plug a new style: accurate, unadorned reporting. From now on, the company's meteorological M.C.s will show fog on their charts as = , drizzle will be , rain ∙, snow ∙, showers ∇, hail ∆, lightning ∠, thunderstorms...
MERGER TERMS were approved by directors of General Dynamics Corp. (1958 sales: $1.5 billion) and Chicago's Material Service Corp. (1958 sales: $114.4 million), which will become an autonomous division of General Dynamics. Deal calls for stock of Material Service (building materials, concrete, coal), almost all held by Chairman Henry Crown and his family, to be exchanged for approximately $125 million worth of General Dynamics stock...