Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Administration set out to prove to the Senate that the argument was phony. Before the Senate Appropriations Committee went the big guns-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. new JCS Chairman Nathan Twining, and outgoing International Cooperation Administrator John B. Hollister. They spoke eloquently, but perhaps too generally of the urgent necessity for more foreign-aid money to protect the security of the free world. But they failed to dispel the statistical myth of the "surplus" $9.5 billion...
...amount of damages that Miss Froman could collect from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct the restriction of a U.S. citizen's rights by treaty, the House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy...
This summer, as usual, the people of Fish Creek turned out to honor the orchestra and Conductor Johnson at an annual feature: the festival fish boil, held on a spur of grassy land jutting into the lake. It seemed to prove that people would buy the new guys as well as the old-if they were sold right...
...British. French and Canadian delegations interpreted Zorin's remarks as propaganda aimed at next month's German elections. It was obvious that until after Germany votes, the public meetings in London are going to prove little. Even the ever-ebullient U.S. Negotiator Harold Stassen seemed a little discouraged after Soviet Delegate Zorin declared, "The optimistic picture that Mr. Stassen painted for us far from exists...
...scare headlines and angry editorials, Britons generally learned last week what their doctors had known for months : the nation's vaccination program against poliomyelitis is a dismal flop. With this year's number of polio cases (2,700 so far) reported mounting rapidly toward what might well prove to be the highest figures ever, vaccinations were hopelessly behind schedule. There was no chance that the program could catch up unless it got a shot in the arm with massive imports of U.S. vaccine - and these the Ministry of Health flatly refused to consider...