Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...glowing screens in France and Algeria appeared tall, grave Charles de Gaulle, seated at his desk, ready to disclose to France and the world his plan to end the savage, five-year-old Algerian war. His words, ringing with purpose, marked a watershed in French history: "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed...
...President Eisenhower's desk for signature this week: a bill providing the largest company health-insurance program in the country. Eligible: 2,000,000 federal employees and their families, who may choose just about any kind of medical plan they want, either Blue Cross-Blue Shield, insurance company indemnity plans, or a special group-practice plan with a contracted pool of doctors. Scheduled to go into effect July 1, 1960, the new program will cost $222 million annually, to be shared in most cases on a fifty-fifty basis by the Government and individual civil servants...
Overtaxed. In Atlanta, audits revealed that Georgia's Comptroller General Zack D. Cravey spent $1,180 for an office desk, $295 for a posture chair, $28 for an enlargement of a picture with the inscription: "DO YOU WORK TOO HARD...
Stripped of Ceremony. In Virginia Beach, Va., tourists stopping at the Knight's Inn found a note on the desk register: "Too hot! Just take any empty room and go to the beach. I have...