Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower had persuaded Congress to 1) extend the reciprocal-trade act for one year; 2) set up a commission to study the problem. Last summer he appointed the 17-member commission, headed by Inland Steel Co.'s Clarence B. Randall (TIME, Aug. 24); advocates of freer trade had hopes that the commission would emerge with a program less protectionist than present laws...
...natural wonders of the world. There are millions of acres of tundra, stretching across the north in frozen silence; mountains that run amuck from the Himalayas and belch volcanic ash into Bering Strait. There are 100,000 rivers, one-third of the world's forests, the greatest inland sea-the Caspian, five times the size of Lake Superior...
...virtually all U.S.-built) and, in many ways, the inspired contraption is still in its infancy. But few machines have so caught the national imagination. The Marine Corps has long since adopted the helicopter as its answer to the atomic bomb, and proposes to send rotor-topped whirlybirds hurrying inland from carriers far at sea, to establish the beachheads of the future. The Army has begun supplementing trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves...
...find a policy path in a jungle of opinions and interests, President Eisenhower last summer appointed a 17-member Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, headed by Inland Steel Co.'s Board Chairman Clarence B. Randall (TIME, Aug. 24). The commission, currently holding closed-door hearings in Washington, is expected to report to the President early next year. Meanwhile, the determination to find a sound foreign-trade policy has set off a major tariff-policy debate in the nation.* Last week, two familiar figures spoke up: ¶ In Manhattan, Henry Ford II was the principal speaker at the first...
...amateur strides on, gadget bag bumping against his body, camera on his wrist, portable sunshine at his elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...