Word: rechecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snyder and Sherman Adams decided, for the time, to describe the President's illness to the country as a chill. Their reasons: 1) to permit the doctors to recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached...
...expense of such caution was added the extra costs of a deliberate slowdown on construction to recheck everything in the process. For example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock...
...nation's most intensive programs for immunization against diphtheria, run by Health Commissioner Joseph G. Molner. On every notification of birth registration there is an invitation to the parents to have the child inoculated. There is a follow-up letter a year later, and a recheck when the child enters grammar school. But many parents fail to act because they have been lulled into a false sense of security by today's relative rarity of diphtheria. For them, the disease has lost its traditional terror. And Detroit's problem is complicated by huge population shifts...
McCulloch sent along his check for $150,000, part of which Schlesinger turned over to Van Cleef & Arpels. Then Hegener, trying to recheck some details with Preger, reached him at a St. Louis hotel, found that he had not been in Dallas and listened in horror while the real Preger told him that Mrs. Williams had no interest in the oil properties. McCulloch stopped payment on the check. Thus, when Van Cleef & Arpels tried to deposit Schlesinger's check, it bounced -and Hogan's office started to investigate. At week's end Hogan was still looking...
...Eastern Standard Time) on Nov. 2, there will be signs, for those who know how to read them, pointing the way in which the election is going. At about that hour, returns recognized as indicators will cause professional politicians across the land to reach for their pencils and recheck their hunches...