Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some TIME correspondents it was a pleasant July assignment: round up the full perspective of the U.S.'s 181 million-acre National Forests for this week's color story in National Affairs. Through the green trees of East, Midsouth, Midwest and West they went to talk to some of the nation's outstanding forest rangers...
...scattered pieces. Gaitskell, Mollet and Ollenhauer-the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader of the party. In West Germany, Erich Ollenhauer did quit. Putting...
...keeping with the nation's mood, Administration officials are talking behind the scenes about the heady possibility of a big surplus in the President's next budget, perhaps $6 billion or even more -in contrast with the $12.6 billion deficit piled up in just-ended fiscal 1959 and the skimpy $100 million surplus estimated in the fiscal-1960 budget. As Administration economists and budgetmakers see it, spending in fiscal 1961 will creep up to about $80 billion from the current year's $77.5 billion, but the soaring economy may produce revenues as high as $86 billion...
...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
Butler's Blast. Opening gun in the latest and biggest fight was fired by Paul Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Ever since Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn adopted a new legislative strategy that coincided with President Eisenhower's (and the nation's) vision of a balanced budget, Butler had been frustrated, tormented. Last week he put his feelings on the public record. "We are going to be in a tough situation in 1960," he told a TV interviewer. "Quite a few Democrats around the country are unhappy about the progress that has been made...