Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...republicans. These areas of agreement should receive the same support that democrats would give their own Administration-the G.O.P. will not be able to make 1956 campaign capital from legislation driven through by Democrats. Where there is disagreement with Administration policy, the majority should exercise its investigative power to probe and air out issues. But it should not be needlessly obstructive. The era when an opposition majority can safely hamstring an administration is long past. It the Democrats are worthy of complete victory in 1956, they must first show, in the next two years, that they will not put party...
...considerations of 'face' predominant, or other reason not yet revealed? It would require a long inquiry to probe the motives leading to the decision to 'steamroller' the plan without a court ruling...
...Corp.'s purchase of Pacific Mills and Goodall-Sanford, Inc. (TIME, July 26) will be investigated by the New York Stock Exchange on complaints from stockholders that they should have been notified individually of Burlington's plans. But chances are good that nothing will come of the probe, since both stocks are higher now than they were when the offers were made. Burlington will sell Goodall-Sanford's Palm Beach suit subsidiary, will probably eventually shift the work in Goodall's biggest mill, at Sanford, Me., to the South...
...Oceanography. Backed largely by oil money, the department was set up at Texas A. & M. Its students cruise the Gulf in the pursuit of science. These newly seagoing Texans talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with what it calls a "jacket": eight heavy-walled steel cylinders, 34 inches in diameter and up to 100 feet...
Three times, Adams had tried to shift the probe from the Army to other services, Cohn testified, and had threatened to get Private G. David Schine sent overseas. "Mr. Adams said we had not been cooperating with him and that he was going to show some examples of noncooperation, too, and how would we like it if Schine were ordered overseas...