Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then McElroy offered one of the strangest reassurances in military annals. The U.S. need not worry about the Atlas troubles, said he, because the Communists are having "serious trouble" with their intercontinental missile program, too. Still, the Communists are expected to get ten operational ICBMs by the end of 1959, but that was also not so "important," because the Communists would need "some hundreds," as McElroy put it, "to cream the country...
...Promising an over-all reduction in government spending, including an end to subsidies to companies that perennially operate in the red-many of them government-run industries...
...End of a Fight. For old Bill Keck, it was the end of a long fight to stay independent in an age of integration and merger. A California wildcatter who first struck it rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who did. But now, at 79, he is growing weary of the fight and realizes that a producer must have markets to remain strong. Says a Keck aide: "It has simply become too difficult to do business. Without refinery facilities, we have no import quotas of our own and are entirely...
...materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again had more than $3 billion in gold and exchange in the till-and new self-confidence. It freed the economy from a tangle of regulations, lowered income and corporate taxes, made sterling convertible, and announced the end of import restrictions against most goods coming from the dollar area...
...watches gloomily as the bustling Austrians destroy the "sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian guns. Suspected Serb sympathizers are hanged in Visegrad Square, and the last gesture of the retreating...