Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erupting Volcano. Last week Erhard was deep in his newest battle against rising prices, brought on when the big Ruhr coal operators announced a sudden $1.20-$1.50-a-ton price rise only four days after the elections. To the coal operators' pleas that their prices were still the lowest...
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development Trevor Gardner, who was in charge of the Air Force ballistic-missile program, was bitter in his memory of the tri-service rocket development that led the Army, Navy and Air Force to compete more for headlines against one...
The lobbyists with short-sighted Congressional legislators made it impossible for the President and the State Department to get pleas for larger and more flexible Foreign Aid funds. Eisenhower has noted that "one third of all mankind" was awakening to wants and potentialities. The importance of guiding the rising restlessness...
To the Hills. In 1940, with the German might pouring over his beaches, King Haakon refused to appoint the traitor Quisling to the Norwegian premiership. He fled Oslo to the forbidding North, and, relentlessly pursued by the Nazis, twice narrowly escaped death. His forces held out for longer than those...
* When French Premier Guy Mollet's party visited Moscow last year, Mikoyan pressed them to visit his home republic of Armenia. Khrushchev joined in, saying that the Armenian climate was good, even though the food and wine were terrible. In due course, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan...