Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades-old White House tradition, a retiring Cabinet member may keep a simple but substantial souvenir: the black leather, brass-fitted armchair that he uses at Cabinet meetings during his tour in office. For Dwight Eisenhower, the presentation of a black leather chair last week to his good friend, retiring Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, symbolized the beginning breakup of the first Administration "old gang'' and the pressing, painful process of putting together a younger team for the rest of the second Administration...
...final official farewell gesture, the President honored Humphrey with a black-tie White House stag dinner, attended by the Cabinet and other top Government leaders, e.g., Vice President Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Later, Treasury officials put up the cost of a new black leather chair ($116.50) for Humphrey's hand-picked successor, Lawyer-Financier Robert Anderson, 47, onetime (1954-55) Deputy Defense Secretary. The next black-chair souvenir, Washington suspected, will go to another businessman turned Administration stalwart, outgoing, outspoken Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson-as soon as the Administration can find a good and willing...
...consumption). It is planned to have 20 wells operating by the end of 1958. The excitement of bringing in the big "bear cats" does not disturb the calm of the bespectacled chief engineer, Christian Redron, who wears nothing but khaki shorts and sandals on a skinny frame burned to leather by the sun. But Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls from...
...economists are seriously worried that the present capital shortage will harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important-and often more profitable-enterprises...
...Inside, the ballad's hero, Bushranger Ned Kelly, stood silently as the hangman slipped the noose over his head, said with a shrug, "Such is life," and was dropped to his death. Ever since, the legend of Ned Kelly, the last of Australia's hell-for-leather desperadoes, has lingered on as Australia's private pride and public shame, celebrated in half a dozen movies and retold in scores of paperbacks and biographies. Now Ned Kelly is riding hard across the canvases of young Australian painters set on finding a theme that will stamp their works...