Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a marginal notation in the President's handwriting, asking McKay "to see what he could do about granting" Al Sarena's request. That day the committee scurried through its files in search of the letter. It was not located for the reason that it did not exist. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty scornfully denounced Columnist Drew Pearson's story as a "scurrilous lie." Replied Pearson: "The first time Hagerty denied one of my stories was in October 1953, when I reported Eisenhower had a heart condition . . ." Pearson's 1953 story was wrong, too. President...
...Strife breeds more strife, violence produces more violence, and agitation causes trouble where none would otherwise exist. I cannot please you today because I don't think the course of action you suggest is in the interests of Tennessee...
...fuel for nuclear power plants, the committee said that both will be needed. But the committee raised a warning flag against overexpansion in uranium mining and milling. "If military requirements fall off during the early part of the forecast growth of atomic power, a surplus over civilian needs may exist." The committee recommended that AEC ease off on uranium ore-buying, let uranium find its natural price in a free market...
Technological Revolution. Effective missiles call for a technology that did not then exist. The need was for better rocket motors, more sophisticated electronics, more intelligent computers, more sensitive instruments. The demand was for new metals, ceramics, fuels, new physics and mathematics. New production methods were called for-in short, a technological revolution...
...Editor Al Friendly began writing the series-and running into facts that cried out for checking. The paper assigned a reporter to the checking job, and demanded that Hughes produce his elusive collaborator Bill Decker. It soon turned out that Decker and others quoted by Hughes just did not exist...