Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Facts for Feuds. Ike's troubles on the Hill are further compounded by the assiduously reported Washington notion that he spends more and more of his time on the golf course, has little interest in the running of Government. In cold fact, the President is at his desk daily...
The moneysaving troop cuts aroused neither joy nor grave misgivings among service planners. U.S. muscle, they agreed, will suffer little. The Army will come down from 1,000,000 to 950,000, but will keep its 17 authorized divisions; the Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850...
Further cementing her bond with the people, Scots-descended Queen Elizabeth scanned the royal phone bill (estimate: $70,000 a year), reached a housewifely conclusion: too high. Her solution: install pay phones in Buckingham Palace.
Last week a persistent scientist named Edward George Bowen was proving that rainmaking can be notably successful when conducted as a long-range program with carefully limited goals. As chief of the Radiophysics Division of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put...
Taxpayers' Loss. Washington officials admitted last week that cotton-picking Jack Harris was not alone in picking the soil bank clean. So many other big-acreage cotton farmers are growing penalty cotton that the Agriculture Department long ago gave up any attempt to count them. Rather than cutting cotton...