Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since a new office building rose in Chicago's Loop, where the first skyscraper* was built 72 years ago. This week, amid the Loop's smoke-stained, weather-worn monuments to another era, the Inland Steel Co. dedicated a crisp, tall, gleaming home office that goes a step or two ahead of almost every other office building...
...post-Sputnik era many a Congressman had raised his voice asking for the Administration to show "leadership." The Administration showed it by attacking the nation's $5 billion-a-year farm giveaway in an election year-when the money is sorely needed for defense. Judging by its first spokesmen, Congress was in no mood to deal with the issue...
...crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...insiders' gripes or desires cannot be as tangibly met. Some, of course, spring from nostalgic yens for the era of gracious living and some from proctor-balked libertinism. It will be interesting to see whether, under the Administration's plans for supervision of outside living quarters, these can be fulfilled. Short of establishing Harvard on a South Pacific island, they cannot, and it will probably not take the disgruntled seniors long to be disillusioned...
...different place, President Eisenhower backed away from the firm determination he expressed last week to reorganize the Defense Department swiftly for the space era. Eisenhower told his news conference that his own idea of what should be done, "no matter how strong, cannot be the final answer." He said the answer must be worked out after "many conferences" in which the views of Congress and the three armed services will be sought...