Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy electronic experts want to predict officially how long the solar batteries will keep supplying power. One of them guesses unofficially that "our grandchildren may hear its signals." Eventually the windows in the skin of the sphere will be clouded by the sandblasting of micro-meteorites. No one knows how long this will take, or how much it will affect the action of the batteries...
...light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn't shout with steel. Why, you can almost hear those cables, and you can see every damned member...
...sure that in their freedom the people will in due time turn the recession around. They will probably do it faster the less they are stuffed with Government "remedies" and the less they hear about Thinking Big. There is only one right approach to taxes, and that is for the Government to reduce its spending enough to permit reductions without unbalancing the budget. What the economy needs far more than a tax holiday is a holiday from Government gimmicks...
...next thing I could hear," said Logue later, "was Wilson shouting 'Stand up, Logue, stand up, Logue,' in the true, lower-middle-class English fashion." Wilson flailed wildly at Tynan. "You deliberately tried to sabotage the play," he shouted. "I'll stamp you out, Tynan. Literature isn't big enough for both...
...scarcely reaches the room temperature needed to sustain living characters. He reserves his warmest affection for the lore of "The Street" itself, from Trinity's spire to the pockmarks preserved in the side of the Morgan bank from the 1920 bombing. The Street may be mildly amused to hear that it is a psychosocial arena of U. v. non-U., and that to the combatants, gaining acceptance is more important than capital gains. As far as Wall Street knows, the real hassle going on is that old-fangled one between the bulls and the bears over money...