Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department appropriations bill of $31,836,521,336-$348 million more than the House granted. Under the committee version, the Air Force will get $14.7 billion, including a 35% increase in B-52 production funds, the Navy $9 billion, the Army $7.3 billion. The full Senate also extended the draft for four years, the doctors' draft...
...U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think I know the feeling of the workers." Once a six-page draft memo was brought to him for approval. "It's too long." said Reuther, picking up his pencil. When he got through, the memo was 13 pages long, but he liked it better. He can - and does - speak almost endlessly on almost anything. "You ask him what time it is," complained...
...Fourth, the Governor's Commission should draft a law permitting the assignment of individual pupils to particular schools...
...edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton since that compiled by the late Henry Cabot Lodge and reprinted in 1904. Among the hitherto unpublished items the Columbia volumes will contain: documents written while Hamilton was Washington's aide-de-camp, his Cabinet papers, reports to Congress, and his draft of Washington's Farewell Address...
...less lyrical than it is sensual, Pam and The Groper's love-making has a vernal, childlike candor about it that soars above the sordid. Pam's pregnancy and a call from the draft board break the spell but weld the couple in marriage and newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first...