Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment Compensation. President Eisenhower wanted to extend unemployment compensation benefits-within reason. But House Democrats tried to ram through an all-things-to-all-men bill costing $1.5 billion. The President denounced it as "dole," and a House majority rallied behind him. Result: a $665 million bill extending unemployment benefits up to 15 weeks beyond previous limits...
...needle-like inclusion of amphibole in the crystalline structure") may make them unique among emeralds. So far, few of the Belingwe gems have reached the jewel marts. The prospectors and the Southern Rhodesian government are aware that the world emerald market is small and extremely sensitive, and therefore will dole out the gems slowly to keep prices high...
...cartels that would prove no more workable than the U.S. farm price-support program. Another idea is for the U.S. and other buyer nations to stockpile raw materials from underdeveloped nations. But since the U.S. already has full stockpiles of most commodities, any addition to them would be a dole...
Died. James Drummond Dole, 80, Boston-born, Harvard-educated "Pineapple King," founder in 1901 of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., which made big business of the islands' exportation of the fruit, now has annual sales of more than $80 million, leads the $117 million industry in Hawaii; of a heart attack; in Honolulu...
...also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also anxious to avoid the blame...