Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Badly needed is a joint effort by the Administration and Congress to decide just what national purposes federal housing programs are supposed to serve, and just how the programs should fit the purposes. But beyond this governmental responsibility lies a responsibility of the housing industry. The industry is composed of some of the U.S.'s ruggedest free enterprisers, who work toward a single purpose only when they want Government help. Next needed step: to promote improved housing in the U.S. in other ways besides handing out loans and grants, e.g., through research on housing materials, designs, construction methods...
...foot in Panama, Milton delivered the welcome news that a joint U.S. House-Senate committee had just agreed to end the controversial double standard under which U.S. and Panamanian Canal employees are paid according to separate wage scales. His No. 1 mission, however, is asking questions and getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund...
Taking a leave from Caltech, Beadle went to Paris to work with Ephrussi. Their first joint experiment was the delicate feat of transplanting an eye from one minuscule fruit-fly larva to another. After many attempts, an eye took hold and lived, and the two young scientists spent a whole day of celebration at a sidewalk...
...come here on behalf of the Philippine people, your best friends in Asia, who live in the faith that the heart of this great American nation has for them a soft spot." The speaker before a joint session of Congress was the Philippines' cheerful, articulate President Carlos Garcia, and as he moved through Washington last week on an official state visit, he soon found that U.S. officials indeed had for him a soft spot...
...Ciudad Trujillo, Rafael Trujillo Sr. stayed in bad temper over his son's repeated setbacks. Having promoted Junior to chairman of the Dominican Joint Chiefs of Staff just after the boy flunked at Fort Leavenworth, the dictator followed up by calling home all 30 Dominicans who were studying at U.S. military establishments. He threatened to end all military and aid pacts with the U.S.. including the one under which the U.S. runs a missile-tracking station in the Dominican Republic. He sniffed that since the Army Command and General Staff College has become a "political tool," its diploma...