Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done to keep the mills in operation." After 40 minutes in conference, the judges returned their verdict: by a majority of 5 to 4, they granted an indefinite stay of injunction, provided that the Government appealed to the Supreme Court within two days. In effect, the Government could hold the steel mills until the Supreme Court handed down a ruling. In a subsequent memorandum, the majority explained why they had granted the stay of injunction. They found two arguable points in Pine's ruling: 1) In the past, the Supreme Court had held that emergencies gave the President...
...fixed 1954 as the U.S. "peril point." To prepare the U.S. for that moment, the JCS last fall belatedly fixed a minimum goal: an air force of 143 wings (126 combat, 17 transport) by 1954, designed to 1) protect the nation against the first shock of attack and 2) hold off the attackers until the U.S. can build to full war strength. It was against this professional estimate of the situation that the President of the U.S. set his opinion and cut the 1953 Air Force budget. Its effect: a postponement to 1955 of the date on which...
...meetings. The other members of the JCS balked. For one entire week last fall Vandenberg sat at his desk and glared moodily at the figures. Then one day he strode through the Pentagon's web to the closely guarded sector where the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold their regular meetings. In his quiet, earnest baritone he went over his case again & again for Chief of Staff Joe Collins of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations Bill Fechteler and for the JCS chairman, Infantryman Omar Bradley. The Air Force still wanted 163 wings, but it would retreat to 143 wings...
...will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place of a generally worn garment by which they endeavor to conceal their inches and hold up their stockings," and which usually costs a good deal more...
This year's Regatta Weekend is the third such function sponsored by the Crimson Key Society, and is similar to the large affairs at Yale, Pennsylvania. Cornell, and Brown. Though individual Houses did occasionally hold dances and parties on the Friday night of the Key Weekends, the Dunster House Masquerade was the only annual function...