Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below authorization figure ($872 million below Administration request). President Eisenhower desk-hammered at G.O.P. congressional leaders ("This thing is vital to our country's interest") too late to sway House but in time to buck up Senate Appropriations Committee, which restored $440 million. With the Senate likely to follow the committee recommendation, the most probable outcome: a split-the-difference House-Senate compromise, with a final mutual security total of about $3.3 billion-more than the Administration at one time could have expected but still $650 million, or 16%, less than "the smallest amount we may wisely invest...
...John Sutherland Bonnell, pastor of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Overwhelmingly, the assembly approved a resolution denouncing such leaders who "turn their backs on Jesus Christ." These leaders, said the resolution, "have not directed the people to the only means of salvation ... All the blind peoples who follow these blind religious guides will suffer execution with them at God's hands...
...match the automatic July 1 wage increase (cost: 26? an hour). But Big Steel, which led the industry in eleven of the twelve boosts since World War II, this time plainly intended to let someone else lead the way-and take the political walloping that was sure to follow. Moreover, Big Steel probably needed a raise least, because of increased efficiency in its operations (see below). Last week Armco Steel's President R. L. Gray finally took the step, raised the price on flat rolled products (35% of all steel production) $4.50 a ton. The rest of the industry...
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...
...have gone down at a much slower rate, from about 3,000,000 last year to 2,300,000 this year.) If a strike is called, union plans are to strike one company (most likely candidate: Ford) in hopes that it will buckle and the others will have to follow...