Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of winter, Washington seemed to be in the grip of the word "inevitable." A meeting at the summit was inevitable; a quick tax cut to brake the recession was inevitable; some kind of politically popular, high-subsidy farm program was inevitable; a wishy-washy Pentagon reorganization plan was inevitable. Last week the President, back in command of the Administration in all its divisions, proved in a busy week that there is nothing inevitable about anything when leadership provides its own direction. Items...
Leaving the Indian Treaty Room at conference's end, more than one newsman was impressed enough to report that the clearest springtime voice to be heard last week was the voice of the President...
...Congress really wants to help farmers, he wrote, it should get busy and pass the program he sent up last January, which would further widen the range of price support flexibility and end the present escalator formula under which price supports automatically rise as surplus falls-to build up another surplus...
...next school day, Coach Dougherty was back in class, tagged "Wyatt Earp" by awed students. And by week's end, since $7,000 is still not enough to support two kids in college, the coach was back in his hack...
...Strike or Not? At week's end the G.M. talks were recessed for a fortnight, and Reuther got ready to make his demands on Ford and Chrysler. The hard bargaining will come when the current contracts near their expiration dates between the end of May and early June. And though union and management are poles apart, everyone hopes a strike can be averted. At most, the U.A.W. may walk out on one automaker, most likely Ford. A strike against G.M.. the biggest employer, might well flatten the U.A.W.'s $50 million strike chest, while a strike against...