Word: okay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial question-trade with Russia and her satellites-the U.S. and her allies are sharply split. Last week the split widened. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, with the backing of the Pentagon, refused to okay a deal between Texas' Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Soviet Ministry of Trade. Dresser wanted to import what it called a revolutionary turbine oil-well drill developed by Russian engineers. In return it would agree to ship the Russians some of its own rotary rock drill bits, instruct them in their use. But Commerce, State and Defense Department experts decided that Dresser would get nothing...
...Connell who first gave un official sanction to the plan for providing unlimited quantities of reserved grandstand seats at cost for re-sale by the Council, according to Sloane. "I handle these matters and it's okay as far as I'm concerned," OC'onnell reportedly told Sloane, pending final confirmation by club hierarchy. He further advised the Council to begin action on the plan, Sloane said...
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...politicians into running for a second wearing, tearing White House term . . . he's earned a rest . . . and sob, sob, sob. What puzzles us is that you hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson had a heart attack, too ... Yet it seems quite okay with the New-Fair Dealers for Johnson to work like a horse as the heavily burdened leader of the Senate Democratic majority. How do you explain that, please...
FREIGHT-RATE INCREASE is in the offing. A presidential fact-finding committee has recommended a 16½? hourly package increase for 750,000 nonoperating employees (their present average hourly pay: $1.78). To offset rising wage and material costs, U.S. railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to okay a 7% freight-rate boost...