Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after spending a fortnight in Washington talking to Joint Chiefs Chairman Arthur Radford and other Pentagon officials, General Srisdi Dhanarajata, commander in chief of Thailand's army, announced that the U.S. had agreed to step up its military aid to his country. Among the items promised: more tanks, trucks, artillery, small arms, ammunition and other equipment; 25 jet aircraft; a $3,000,000, 297-mile military road; training of more Thai officers in the U.S.; enlargement of the 200-man U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand. For his part, bulky General Srisdi prepared to double the number...
Just after the Eisenhower legislative program hit cruising speed on Capitol Hill last fortnight, it ran into fog and head winds in both the House and the Senate. On six bills the Administration suffered telling setbacks, all of them affecting major Eisenhower policies...
...Only a fortnight ago, Ike had been pleased with the progress his program was making in Congress, and had a word for its prospects: rosy. Last week the bloom was clearly off the rose, and Dwight Eisenhower was uncommonly vigorous in scolding Congress...
...since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week it became clear that most credit for the settlement belonged to one man: Secretary of Labor James Mitchell...
Tire Fall of a Titan has already transformed ex-Comrade Gouzenko into a capitalist: in addition to the juicy income assured by the Book-of-the-Month arrangement, Gouzenko a fortnight ago got the nice bourgeois sum of $100,000 for screen rights to the book...