Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residential section of the White House, and Ike chatted with Simmons until the President arrived in his office and buzzed a "show him in" signal. Then Ike went in for his first face-to-face meeting with Harry Truman since last June, when the President pinned a fourth Oak Leaf Cluster on retiring NATO Commander Eisenhower...
...crowded, oak-paneled boardroom of Washington's Riggs National Bank last week, the long ownership battle over the American President Lines, Ltd. finally came to an end. On a bid of $18.4 million, the line, with its 17 passenger and freight ships, went to A.P.L. Associates. Inc., a company formed by California Oilman Ralph K. (for Kenneth) Davies...
After Texas, Eisenhower flew on to Tennessee. Fifty carloads of people from nearby Oak Ridge came to greet him at Knoxville. He denounced critics for saying that he was against TVA. Said Eisenhower: TVA "is a great experiment" which has done Tennessee much good, but that does not mean that its pattern would work everywhere else. In the Missouri Valley, for instance, a lot of people would prefer a legal arrangement in which the state and Federal Government would be true partners. It should be done, said Eisenhower, "the way people in the region want it done...
...nature. He has spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...
...started with oak leaves and used the same process you'd ordinarily use for spinach," Walcott explained yesterday, "and boiled the leaves for two minutes before freezing. But the catepillars had to be coaxed to eat them and didn't grow a whit, so we added vitamins and got better results...