Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compelled by the Soviet's purposeful drive for the moon, stirred by the American tradition and man's limitless yearning to challenge the unknown, the U.S. has a new adventure in store, an old promise to keep-to its own pride, to progress, and perhaps to survival...
Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
Besides increasing the Waggoner empire's profits, General Manager Anderson succeeded over the years in transforming its local image from stone-hearted colossus to soft-hearted rich uncle. In Vernon, Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
TRADE. Anderson's drive to get other industrial nations of the free world to lower their trade barriers against U.S. goods has already brought dramatic results. At the late September meeting of the World Bank-IMF, Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of IMF, agreed with Anderson that the "new situation' called for a "fresh examination" of international economic policies. The IMF executive board urged member nations with adequate gold and dollar reserves to end discrimination against U.S. goods "with all feasible speed." A few days later, the meeting of the 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs...
...remained for the upsurge of postwar prosperity (320 new manufacturing companies in the last decade) and population boom (2,500-3,000 new inhabitants each month) to bring the bloom of art to the desert. Sparking the drive for a new museum were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance Man George Bright, a recovered TB victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel...