Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until mid-May, was cut to $2.1 billion. Most of the House cuts were kept in Senate-House conference, but the "omnibus"' bill sent to the President...
Installment Plan. In Detroit, thieves stole the furnishings from a model home, next night returned and stole the carpeting from the house next door...
...moved to the delicate subject of Algeria (De Gaulle was angered by U.S. abstention on the Algerian question in the U.N. last winter). "We recognize that France faces a problem of greater difficulty and complexity than that which burdens any other free nation," he said. "We welcomed the Constantine Plan* as a major step forward. We welcomed your affirmation of the reality of an 'Algerian personality,' " adding, "We sincerely hope that an equitable and liberal solution-one that will maintain French ties to Algeria -will be found. In his efforts to achieve this solution. President de Gaulle...
With a clank of beer mugs, the four mountaineers tossed off a heady toast one night last summer and then sat down to plan their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
Reinforcing this propaganda bombardment are a plan of military training in even the communes, and an abrupt fusion of the traditional education program with the Marxist productive labor theories. Rau admitted that he was ready to be impressed, but had returned to India disillusioned by the impersonal impact of his hosts, the discovery that "modesty is not a Communist vice," and the uneasy feeling that he had been constantly watched...