Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
...fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "Who will blame me for feeling deep personal satisfaction? After all, it was I who eight years ago in a world of destruction, disorder and disbelief called for convertibility. What did I get? Mockery and scorn. Yet of all conceivable forms of integration in the free world, free convertibility of currencies is the most fertile...
...which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth) than the U.S. No warrior hosts throng around the eight-story Brussels headquarters of the Common Market. Calm-voiced Walter Hallstein, 57, the onetime German law professor who is the Common Market's chief administrative officer, is no Charlemagne. But he has powerful weapons in the freely given adherence and common aspirations of the people of six nations...
...result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood sows in February, the farmers sold the fattened litters in October, made a handsome profit, paid back the government loan, gave back the land, dissolved the collective and went back to private farming. Polish officials wryly call such operations "milk" collectives-collectives that milk the government...