Word: paves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These days, the pro-Ike leaders of 1952 are meeting again, busily trying to pave the way for his re-election in 1956, if he decides to run. Among members of the group: General Lucius D. Clay, now chairman of the board of Continental Can Co., Herbert Brownell, Attorney General of the U.S., Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. delegate to the U.N., Thomas E. Dewey, New York attorney, Paul G. Hoffman, chairman of the board of Studebaker-Packard Corp...
Paris consumes only about half the food that pours into Les Halles. The rest is promptly reshipped to the provinces. The villain, as Herber Luethy pointed out trenchantly in France Against Herself (TIME, July 4), is centralization, which in France makes the smallest village council unable to pave a road or fix a school-house roof without the approval of a ministry in Paris, which makes all French roads pivot on Paris like spokes of a wheel, which has discouraged provincial markets and forces produce into Paris to find a buyer. Nearly a third of all France's food...
...Overboard. To pave the way. Perón last week employed a familiar technique: lightening ship by throwing overboard once useful cronies.* Out went the two front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church...
...golden balls enough to pave...
...year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...