Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus houses wait-on in the brick dorms where they eat unless inconvenient to that brick dorm. The work chairman in the off-campus house is to apportion her work program so that the total number of work hours of each girl in the off-campus house is equal...
...clear from public statements that Eisenhower does personally believe in and accept reciprocal trade, a form of federal aid to education, a program of national health insurance, foreign economic aid and the peaceful use of atomic power for the benefit of the whole world, a more liberal immigration law, equal rights for all, Social Security, and America's international obligations and the United Nations. In short, President Eisenhower has said a clear "Me too" to the American liberal tradition...
People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...Equal Pay. The outburst came over the twin pipelines that the British-managed (and British-French-Dutch-U.S.-owned) I.P.C. operates between its Iraq fields and Lebanon's Mediterranean port of Tripoli. The Lebanese in 1944 gave renewed approval to an old agreement to 1) let I.P.C. run its pipes through their country, 2) exempt the company from taxation, 3) submit all disputes to arbitration. In 1947, I.P.C. began paying transit fees to Syria and Lebanon, through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same...
Then Syria demanded bigger transit fees. I.P.C. agreed, worked out a mileage-volume pipeline formula that would pay Syria $18 million annually, threw in an extra $23.8 million to settle past claims. Last January it offered the same arrangement to Lebanon, which asked pay equal to Syria's, though I.P.C.'s Lebanese lines traveled one-thirteenth the distance and carried half the volume...