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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, most of the work curtailment has come in the field of domestic affairs. One result is that he plays little part in the early stages of formulating policy. Example: the Interior Department has almost completed an antirecession public-works plan that will cost about $80 million. This would mean a major reversal of last year's budget-conscious policies. The plan will soon hit the President's desk, and he will make the final decision. But he has not participated in any of the earlier discussions, and there is even some doubt that he is aware...
...mile. Land-based missile crews can set their guidance systems for the target on the basis of their known position. But how, traveling hundreds of feet below the sea, could the Navy subs fix position accurately? An error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists who developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System). After a year's testing aboard a converted...
...tariffs if the U.S. does.) But no one in Washington could give the delegation much encouragement that the tariff would not be raised. Said Tamaki: "I simply cannot believe that you Americans, if you knew the facts-and realized that the signing of this Tariff Commission recommendation would mean the ruin of 50,000 people who think, live and believe in the same principles you do-would allow this tragedy to occur...
...shut off. When a French diplomat formally requested permission to revictual the garrison, Vice Premier Bahi Ladgham told him coldly: "Leave Tunisia and you can find all the food you need." Should the French try to force their way in or out of the bases, warned Bourguiba, "it will mean war." Breathing defiance, he took to the radio to proclaim: "Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis." Typically, he added in the next breath: "Tunisia is always ready to turn the page...
...having given Jacqueline jewelry: "Why should I? I never visited her in the evening, and you don't wear jewelry like that in the daytime." The judge was sympathetic: "An allowance of ?40 a week taxfree, with other bills paid," he observed, "does not sound like a very mean allowance for the casual interviews they had. Miss Gray received ?38,000 over the years, a fortune in itself...