Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week a mood of coolheaded, steady-as-she-goes conservatism prevailed on Capitol Hill. The most striking evidence was the way House Democratic leaders received the tax proposal sent up by President Eisenhower (TIME, June 2). With the recession apparently bottoming out and Budget Director Maurice Stans promising a deep-red budget, the President had adopted Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's tough-minded case for standing pat on taxes (see box, next page). All that Ike asked Congress to do was extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes now scheduled to shrink back...
...salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME, April 14). Ike did a slow burn, then burst out with a ringing summons to the House to override its own Armed Services Committee. Charged...
...awareness of it. In 1950 he ran for a seat in the territorial legislature. He was elected to three terms. It was in the legislature, under the tutelage of an old friend and longtime Republican bigwig named John Butrovich Jr. ("Butro and Stepo") that Mike sank himself deep into Alaska's problems...
...Architect Harrison calls "modern baroque," the new Met will have five huge, barrel-vault cantilevers rising to a height of eight stories at the entrance, grille-and-glass façaded sides, and a horseshoe interior seating 3,800 (v. the Met's 3,612). The 108-ft.-deep stage will be serviced by a 14-story stage loft and three movable stages, one equipped with turntable...
...much a test of men as machines. Dried out by the desert, the travelers drank the oily water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...