Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue plan, Soapy's only hope for getting enough money to meet state payrolls in late April and beyond was to ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost...
...government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged to find another site. Le Corbusier himself? He appeared a trifle wearied by it all. Said Corbu: "Houses can die as well as men, but if there's a way of saving them, so much the better...
...remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
What did the new laws mean? Seeking to find out, newsmen had their worst fears confirmed: no photographs of court witnesses could be published; cops, magistrates, lawyers, judges and witnesses were barred from giving any information to newsmen about cases under judgment. France's freewheeling press reacted explosively. Cried Liberation: "It has been a long time since anyone in France could talk about what is happening in Algeria. Now we will not be permitted to publish what is happening in France...
...emitted by a pretty bonbon; and most of those moments involve Maureen Stapleton, a gifted actress from Broadway who, in her first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...