Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 1 the Joint Chiefs of Staff upgraded and expanded the three-year-old Air Defense Command. General Chidlaw took operational control of all Army ack-ack and missile battalions, Navy patrol squadrons and radar picket ships, Marine Corps and Air National Guard fighter outfits assigned to air defense. The rechristened Continental Air Defense Command became an independent force reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs, who spelled out its mission in seven words: "Defend the United States against air attack...
...Watkins' committee did on McCarthy. Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism. Now that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat of the present moment, but we think they both owe at least that much to the G.O.P. and to their country...
...days after the strike's end, a special joint session of Congress met to consider Cafe Filho's veto. In wage-conscious Rio, not one Congressman was bold enough to speak in the President's defense, but when the debate ended, the vote in favor of the wage-raise bill (124-120) fell far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and the President's veto stood...
...decreasing the supply of money, the Government indirectly determines such things as 1) how much a person can borrow, 2) whether he can get a mortgage on his house and how much it will cost him, and 3) whether he will get or keep a job. Last week a joint committee of Congress held the first full-scale hearing on the Administration's fiscal policy...
...Dixon-Yates contract, which has already been raked over by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy (TIME, Nov. 22), last week came up for a second currycombing. This time it was the turn of the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC was not interested in the public v. private power debate that has raged around the contract. It was interested only in financing details of the null plant that Dixon-Yates has contracted to build at West Memphis, Ark. to provide power for the Atomic Energy Commission. Like any other new company planning a stock issue, Dixon-Yates needed...