Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...fact: the Truman Administration muddled along spending about $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistics missilery (while a lot of the progress was made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, paying for experiments on the Atlas ICBM out of its own pocket). Moreover, Chrysler's able Keller, far from being a czar, was an "appraiser" of the missile program, did his able job within that limited authority...
...Progress reports in the war on heart disease, presented to last week's annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7--President Eisenhower went on the air last night to reassure Americans about U.S. scientific progress. In a half-hour broadcast, the President announced...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...