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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West continues to insist on the right of free access to Berlin, that will mean war. ''but it will be your war." ¶ The U.S.S.R. has set up in Communist China an array of rockets with enough range to hit Formosa and destroy the U.S.'s Formosa-guarding Seventh Fleet; it will also back Red China in any invasion of Formosa...
...housing loans, and the corporate-and excise-taxes extension bill (see The Congress). ¶ Marked off a new line of fiscal frugality for his Administration. A balanced budget was something he was earnestly striving for, said Ike, but he pointedly omitted previous hints that this might mean a tax cut. Said he: "We should be starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some of these great obligations, and I think we should." ¶ Pinned an oakleaf cluster, in lieu of a third Distinguished Service Medal...
...explained. "She wanted to be Governor." But Blanche had no cause for green eyes: "How can an old man take care of three or four women? I'm 63, going on 64, and when you get to be 64, you'll know what I mean...
Mimi's last meeting with Hitler was in his apartment on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich in 1938. "Are you happy, Wolf?" she asked him there. "No, if you mean with Eva," answered Hitler. "I tell her every day she ought to find some young fellow. I'm too old." (Hitler was then 49.) Then Mimi asked her old lover what everyone else was asking: "Will there be war?" Der Führer shrugged his shoulders and turned away...
...that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve that level. What really counts, says the union, is the industry's minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, which is equaled or exceeded by nine major industries...