Word: impor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMID Democratic claims of landslide and Republican counterclaims of strength, TIME'S editors decided to make a searching survey of the area that could be of make-or-break impor tance in deciding the balance in the next U.S. House of Representatives. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele traveled to Kansas and Iowa; Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar covered Nebraska; Chicago Correspondent Ed Reingold moved into Ohio; Chicago Correspondent Jon Rinehart reported on Indiana, Missouri and Minnesota; Chicago Correspondent Mark Perlberg filed on Illinois; local correspondents added their on-the-spot knowledge. For the results, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Midwestern...
...Gimme some No-Cal champagne!"). It was the eighth and best of Weaver's big gambles. But it was not final proof that the spectacular, at $200,000 or more apiece, is going to pay off for NBC with the public, with the critics and with those all-impor-tants of radio-TV, the advertising...
Their approach to the five most impor tant economic problems shapes up as follows : DEFENSE. The Government's plan to ex pand the economy enough to superimpose war production on top of normal civilian production was sound, but In the helter-skelter expansion, contracts often went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
...Wilson had figured out some ways of placating labor. In his radio address (see above), Wilson hinted at new attempts to hold down food prices, promised to crack down on profiteers, pointedly noted that the views of farm ers and workers "must be represented in meeting national problems." More impor tant, he said: "Wage policies, too, are being modified again ..." But were they being modified enough to satisfy labor? Just to suggest the peril of not conceding labor enough, James B. Carey promptly threatened a strike of his International Union of Electrical Work ers at Charlie Wilson...
...More Italians have taken to reading American publications primarily because they consider the American viewpoint on world events more impor' tant now than ever before. A member of the Italian Foreign Office explained it this...