Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been paying about $17.5 million a year to support its weatherships. The cost of impaired weather information would be hard to estimate. Airlines hate to admit (for fear of scaring away prospective passengers) that their safety factor has been cut. Government agencies in Washington are keeping mum. But the Weather Bureau has testified that the international system of weather reporting "is the very foundation of weather research. The network provides basic data which are essential to almost every major economic field -aeronautics, agriculture, atomic energy facilities, commerce, engineering, rail and sea transportation and the armed forces...
From all points in East Germany, some 500,000 came to West Berlin last week for the second distribution of "Eisenhower packets" of free food. Lines formed early at 13 centers, beneath signs warning the people to keep mum about their identities and beware of informers. One twelve-year-old girl thought she spotted one: she told police that her East Zone teacher had been standing near her in the line, but had moved furtively away when she noticed him. The teacher explained that he had moved because he too had feared betrayal-by the little girl...
...week's end, he seemed fully recovered; he attended services at Augusta's Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, and then hied himself back to the course and played 18 holes with Senator Bob Taft, newly arrived for a two-day visit. The President was mum about the outcome, but fairly exuded satisfaction afterward: "I'll tell you this-I made my best score . . ." Champion-Emeritus Bobby Jones let the cat out of the bag: the President, he reported, had shot an 86, thus breaking 90, as far as anyone knew, for the first time since Inauguration...
...Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon, who was charged with "a long record of Red-front affiliations." The two complaints had no direct connection, since Moon had nothing to do with Collier's buying or running the article. Nevertheless, last week Collier's summarily fired Moon, and was mum on the reason. But Moon and memos from indignant Collier's staffers told the story...
Bock's chances of getting his building are up to a Corporation committee headed by former Corporation member and public health authority Henry F. Shattuck. The committee, however, is keeping mum on its findings and its report on the University's entire health organization will not be ready for some time...