Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment Compensation. President Eisenhower wanted to extend unemployment compensation benefits-within reason. But House Democrats tried to ram through an all-things-to-all-men bill costing $1.5 billion. The President denounced it as "dole," and a House majority rallied behind him. Result: a $665 million bill extending unemployment benefits up to 15 weeks beyond previous limits...
...student's faith was supposed to extend to 1,000 or more herbs, minerals, metals and even precious stones listed in the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia. (The gems were once favored by the practitioners who list themselves in India's telephone books as "sex splst," were supposed to increase virility. With the republican leveling-down, few patients can afford ground-up precious stones, or even pearls. So they settle for sea shells. But they still flock to the ayurvedic sex splst...
...Menderes government itself recognized the new Iraqi regime. But hard-driving Premier Menderes could boast that his militantly pro-Western foreign policy (which Inonu also favors) had at least 359 million concrete advantages. Meeting in Paris, the 17-member Organization for European Economic Cooperation agreed to extend Turkey $100 million in credit ($50 million of it from West Germany), thereby triggered promises of at least another $234 million from the U.S. and $25 million from the International Monetary Fund...
Then he announced that he was about to issue three decrees that would 1) set up electoral lists, 2) establish a single electoral college for Algeria, and 3) extend the vote to Moslem women. "And we are going to give this unity a visible sign," added De Gaulle anticlimactically. "Very soon there will be only a single category of postage stamp for Metropolitan France and Algeria...
...Since seaway construction started in 1954, Cook County (Chicago) Congressmen have twice voted unanimously to extend the tariff-chopping Reciprocal Trade Agreements...