Word: embarked
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13--President Eisenhower presented to Congress today the highest budget in peacetime history--$73,934,000,000 to embark the nation on "the dawning age of space conquest...
Clyde Belin told reporters that he was determined to carry on. All he had to do, he said, was persuade his trustees to buy his campus to pay off his creditors and then lease it back to a new corporation called Belin University. After that, he planned to embark on another scheme-a retirement village for elderly folks, "especially those who have devoted their lives to God's work." But last week the angered and disillusioned people of Chillicothe hoped that they would soon see the last of the Rev. Dr. Clyde Belin...
...from the Throne written by the Conservative government and outlining its legislative aims, Prime Minister Diefenbaker's strategy came clear. His government would introduce legislation to raise pensions for the aged, needy and war veterans; it planned to provide cash advances for farmers with unsold wheat, and to embark on a far-reaching program of hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does not seem to us in the official Opposition appropriate to move the traditional vote of want...
...heavy selling to establish tax losses against gains made earlier, forced selling on margin accounts as prices declined beyond what traders could bear. Underlying all was the growing uncertainty about the course of the U.S. economy, and indeed the nation itself. Early announcements that the U.S. would not embark on a crash program to catch Soviet Russia's earth satellite had a depressing effect. Investors were increasingly worried about high interest rates that led economists to forecast a slight fourth-quarter decline in the rate (currently $37 billion annually) of expenditures for new plant and equipment, the first drop...
Controversy still rages in informed quarters as to whether six months training is necessary or desirable in a reserve program. As the time is too short for the enlistee to do much valuable work in the service after his basic training and far too short to embark on the technical training that an effective soldier in a modern army needs, many claim that the bulk of the six month program is "make-work." It is generally agreed that the Air National Guard has done an outstanding job by requiring requisite active-duty training which varies for the various career fields...