Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind scenes, Mitchell has been trying to get President Eisenhower and the Cabinet to tide the unemployed over until there is a step-up in hiring. He works against a firm deadline: April 1, when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under...
Last week President Eisenhower named firm-jawed, tough-minded James Riddleberger, 54, to a demanding new job: director of the International Cooperation Administration, the agency that administers U.S. foreign aid. A longtime economic specialist and sometime political adviser to ICA's ancestor EGA, Riddleberger will have a fresh chance in the economic cold war to get back at the old business of talking back to Khrushchev...
...Senate McClellan committee hearings into jukebox racketeering, was the slogan of Chicago's Lormar Distributing Co.-and not even Madison Avenue could have sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum and acquaintance of top mobster Tony Accardo...
...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
Hallowell said that the Department of Buildings and Grounds has contracted the Tait Brothers construction firm of Belmont for the four-month project. The cost to repair damages, estimated at $20,000 at the time of the blaze, will be covered by insurance, but the money for modernization will come from club funds...