Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House passed (348-2) and sent to the Senate a bill to give sick railroaders another couple of pep pills by 1) providing Federal Government guarantees for private loans to rail companies for maintenance and improvement, and 2) letting the ICC, rather than state boards, pass on discontinuance of money-losing services, such as commuter trains that run nearly empty...
Purple People Eaters.* 5) There will be a pep rally at the covered bridge over the Oconee River at 1600 to crown the Pope, who will arrive by submarine at 1545. Marching from the river, the Pope's first stop will be the varsity, where he will dine and sign autographs...
...concert at the Academy of Music, he escaped through a shrieking crowd that tore the handles from the doors of his limousine. In Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he went to the White House with his parents and Conductor Kondrashin. President Eisenhower gave him a preperformance pep talk: "After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation from Texas. At week's end he returned to Manhattan to appear on TV's Steve Allen...
...Just say that it was enough," sighed Harrison, who is still beset by libel suits totaling $28 million. The new owners: a syndicate headed by cocky Hy Steirman, 36, who claims, "I've edited 1,000 second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds, but it won't avoid a hot story either. Harrison had a homemade atomic cannon, but he just aimed it at one spot -Hollywood. There are other places -Madison Avenue, for instance...
...listless U.S. economy the Federal Reserve slipped another pep pill. For the second time in a month FRB last week announced a ½% reduction in the required reserves of member banks (down to 19% for central city banks, 17% for reserve city banks, 11% for country banks), thus freeing a potential $3 billion in bank credit for additional loans. Said a top FRBman: "Our purpose is simple: to create conditions still more favorable to recovery...