Word: denver
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President Eisenhower is a man who likes to see for himself. Last week, as reports of mounting flood damage poured into his vacation headquarters in Denver, Ike made a quick decision: to fly to the Northeast, inspect, confer with the governors of the flood-stricken states, decide on the Federal Government's best courses of action. He had a long-standing appointment in the East, at the American Bar Association's meeting in Philadelphia (see above), and the inspection trip pushed his flight schedule forward half a day. At dusk one day last week. Ike boarded the Columbine...
After a night in Washington, Ike flew to his appointment with the lawyers in Philadelphia, returned to the capital to make the Government's flood-relief program official, and to pick up the First Lady and a guest¶ U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop Aldrich. Back in Denver 5½ hours later, Mamie was the first off the Columbine, headed straight for her mother, Mrs. Elivera Doud, at the airport. "Hi, Mommy," she grinned. "It's sure good to be home." From the airport crowd came an inquisitive voice: "What do you plan to do on your vacation...
Soup & 412 Trout. The President's idea of a good time covers a lot of territory-golf, bridge, fishing, shooting, painting, and even cooking. Last week he was happily dabbling in his off-duty hobbies. By 6 o'clock on his first morning in Denver, he was up and around the kitchen of Mrs. Elivera Doud, his mother-in-law, cooking up a huge kettle of his celebrated vegetable soup...
After two days shaking off his Washington tensions, the President left for five days at the mountain ranch of his good friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen. Ike had hoped to commute regularly by air between Denver and the ranch this summer, and had brought his twin-engined Aero Commander plane along as a taxi, but Presidential Pilot William Draper felt that the thin mountain air and the sudden thunderstorms made flying too risky, so Ike reluctantly made the 75-mile trip by Cadillac...
...every penny earned, every penny spent. But as the U.S. economy burgeoned, the rigid family budget began to die out. In the midst of prosperous 1955, a manager of Home Life Insurance Co. estimates that only one of 200 families keeps a detailed day-by-day ledger. Says a Denver oilman: "My wife and I had our fill of budgets during the Depression. I can still see those damned skinny envelopes...