Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Income. Proposed hikes in the federal gasoline tax, aviation gas tax and postal rates (first-class mail to a flat 5?) will, if approved by Congress, help bring income into line with outgo...
...they beat on the theme that with the U.S. elections due on Nov. 4, there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek. But as the U.S. position held firm, and as the Red China military bogged down, the Communists shifted to a new line. The Russians said they had been misunderstood, would never enter a "civil war." Peking radio called no more for "liberation" of Formosa and the offshore islands by force: instead it talked of resolving differences between "Chinese brothers" by discussions and amalgamation...
...grim departure from routine, the DC-6-strikebound American's last flight-rolled away to join 194 other planes already grounded indefinitely at airports around the U.S. Unable to reach agreement on a new contract covering its 1,500 American Airlines members, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association highest salaried and most intensively trained of all U.S. unions, had struck the largest U.S. airline, left thousands of holiday travelers digging desperately for other ways to get there...
...same senior pilots, but wanted monthly flying time cut to 75 hours. Unable to resolve the differences, union and management broke off negotiations, and ALPA grounded pilots as each post-midnight flight ended. No pickets appeared. Said one pilot: "Why should we walk a picket line? Nobody's going to fly the airplanes if we're not there...
Even more groveling was his account of himself: "Before the June 1957 [showdown] I was not with the antiparty group on the question of reorganizing industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted...