Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the world's biggest industrial company was 65, and the citizens of Flint, Mich, gathered to do him honor. As General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars...
...economic recession, election-year politics-by its own generally responsible leadership, and, above all, by the firmest treatment Capitol Hill ever got from Dwight Eisenhower. Last May, after a slow start, the President came out swinging for his program and especially for three legislative "imperatives": 1) defense reorganization, 2) mutual security, and 3) reciprocal trade. These are the grades Congress might give itself on demands of the President and passing the tests of Year One, Space...
Against Russian rocket-rattling and economic recession, mutual security and reciprocal trade measures were more vital than ever. Yet recession gave congressional reactionaries an excuse for a savage fight to "protect" U.S. industry and to kill "giveaways," meaning foreign aid. In general, Congress wrote a responsible foreign relations record against heavy pressures from the irresponsible...
...Mutual Security. President Eisenhower named $3,950,000,000 as "the smallest amount we may wisely invest in mutual security." Skillful missionary work by State Department's Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon helped persuade Congress to authorize a $3,675,000,000 program, only $275 million below the Administration request. But actual appropriations, handled apart from program authorization, got ambushed in the House, where Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of key Appropriations Subcommittee, engineered a slash of $597 million below authorization figure ($872 million below Administration request). President Eisenhower desk-hammered at G.O.P. congressional leaders ("This thing is vital...
...Patrick Matimba, the whole episode was proof that in multiracial Southern Rhodesia there is "very little hope that mutual tolerance and understanding will ever prevail. When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when...