Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children had to be outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen discovered that the Goddess of Freedom on top of the dome was coming apart at the seams, and a bronze...
...black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black gold...
...desperation, Halleck persuaded the President to go on television with an eloquent and perfectly timed appeal for strong labor reform. That reversed the trend: last week, on the eve of the great debate, the House got its biggest pile of mail since Harry Truman sacked General MacArthur...
Then trouble flared up where Sam Rayburn should least expect it-deep in the heart of his own 20-man Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...
...artificial euphoria" that might result from Khrushchev's visit. The London press attacked him in the same vein as Pravda does. "This man is dangerous," huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The policy of Dr. Adenauer would lead to war." To Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, "the self-important old chancellor" was reminiscent of "a bullfrog who puffed himself up until he burst...