Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik impact on defense spending. Defense spending is heading upward -and upward, and the words "deficit financing" are showing up in private Washington talk and responsible editorials. With defense spending on the upswing, the breather, recession, cyclical adjustment, period of hesitation, or whatever, may prove to be only a lull between periods of rising prices, which may or may not be called inflation...
...Looks quiet," said White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to his associate, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, before leaving on a ten-day vacation. "Let's keep it that way." Hagerty had barely arrived in Puerto Rico when Sputnik 11 shattered the lull at the White House. Annie Wheaton's first week under the gun as acting press secretary was Ike's busiest in months...
...where the market would go next, few were hazarding a guess. Members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, meeting in Hot Springs, Va. with Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, foresaw a lull in business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
...display of speeding arms delivery to Syria's Arab neighbors. At week's end eight C124 Globemasters were standing by in Athens and Libya to airlift U.S. weapons, including 106-mm. recoilless rifles, to Jordan. And determined not to let Syria's new pro-Russian regime lull everyone to sleep with sweet talk, Washington did what it could to make plain its concern about Syria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This was a clear declaration of intent to defend vital U.S. interests in the Mideast, but so far the initiative there remained with the U.S.S.R...
According to Fleming, the "mixture of esteem and spite" Hitler had for the British gave him no clue as to what they would do. When he might have tried to lull them into defeatism, he chose instead to try to scare them with a policy of "fee-fi-fo-fum." This "minatory tone" was a bad mistake. "The menace of invasion was at once a tonic and a drug," writes Fleming. "It braced the islanders to exertions whose necessity seemed beyond question, and it expunged the memories of the disasters they had suffered." The British began to stir themselves...