Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remember. On foreign aid, the 84th was unconvinced and unconvincing: last week it authorized the spending of $4 billion, some $900 million less than the Administration had originally thought necessary. On domestic legislation, the Congress was sometimes more generous than the Administration thought wise: it expanded the 21-year-old Social Security program, added disability benefits at the age of 50, forced on the Defense Department more money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project...
...start, a thunderstorm roiled the lake. Booming along at ten knots, the yawl Querida, out of Grosse Pointe, caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said one with a satisfied belch...
Plugs & Pressures. Chary as he was of words that might commit him, Nehru was as usual generous with advice. In Bonn he urged his West German hosts to seek reunification of Germany by "peaceful negotiations." In a speech before the German Foreign Policy Association at Königswinter he put in a vague plug for liberation of Russia's East European satellites ("They are, of course, under a certain domination . . . and I certainly believe they should be free") and a firm one for Red China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling...
Washington's generous Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta was sued by a former niece-in-law, Mrs. Idel Tyson (now divorced from Perle's nephew). The charge: Perle had helped haul off $8,700 worth of household goods from Idel's Washington apartment while Idel was off in Europe...
...steel strike lagged into its third week (see below), the pinch was starting to hurt retailers in some steelmaking areas, though many were trying to bolster sales with generous credit terms (see cut). The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the week were down 1% in the Chicago area, down 6% in Pittsburgh. But it will still be some time before sales are badly hurt. One of the most notable things of 1956 so far is the way Detroit merchants keep on selling in the face of heavy auto layoffs totaling 280,000 Michigan workers. While sales...