Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Puerto Rico is a poor boy hitching a free ride in Uncle Sam's limousine. Some rich boys are also riding free-namely the U.S. corporations there. If freedom from income tax is so beneficial to Puerto Rico, by all means let us all enjoy it and extend it to our other possessions...
Newspaper Days. Still in hock up to his eyebal's, Fox needed ready cash to run the Post. Up to then, the Post had been a strident critic of Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, running for reelection. Dever arranged for his friend Bernard Goldfine to extend Fox about $400,000 in credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher...
With bipartisan support behind him, Smathers last week breached the Administration's previously undentable no-tax-cut line. By sturdy majorities, the Senate nailed the Smathers amendments to the House-passed Administration bill to extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes scheduled to shrink on July 1. But that was all the tax trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold...
Stopgap Skyways. As a stopgap measure to reduce the collision danger, CAA last week laid out three transcontinental air lanes that are completely ground controlled. The new air lanes are 40 miles wide instead of the standard 20 miles, extend from 17,000 ft. to 22,000 ft.; all planes, both military and civilian, in the super-skyways will operate on instrument flight rules, fly at least ten minutes apart. Another five routes are under consideration. In addition, all airlines belonging to the Air Transport Association will fly on instrument rules above 10,000 ft., and military planes will operate...
...Richard
L. Crawford) who are on their way to a Paris convention next month.
Object: to bring future political leaders of the NATO countries face to
face while they are still in their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."