Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building, Douglas reported, are 375 desks, 215 steel filing cabinets, 400 chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain-living Senator Douglas as excessive. He offered to buy the girls rubber heels -from his own pocket...
...prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
...visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about the 1960 convention, has announced as a favorite son and needs control of California's delegation to keep his leverage...
Though dictator-ruled Portugal is a member of NATO, dictator-ruled Spain is not. One reason is the long-standing hostility between France and Franco's Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, France took in 500,000 Republican refugees and even let them set up a government in exile. French Socialists in particular, recalling with distaste Franco's wartime friendship with Hitler and Mussolini, have always resisted friendly relations with Franco...
...morning, the business manager of a big California daily came upon a pressman snoozing in a corner. It turned out that the dozer had been on the job, or at least on the premises, for 26 straight hours-all but seven at overtime wages. Since there was no apparent reason for the money-wasting marathon, the business manager promptly complained to the shop representative of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. The cold reply: "Well, he needed the money...