Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, at the regular White House meeting between Ike and Republican congressional leaders. Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen mentioned the buzzing rumors-false, like so many rumors in the Strauss affair-that...
...Asked congressional leaders of both parties to the White House to discuss refinancing the national debt, afterwards prepared recommendations for new legislation to 1) increase the regular debt limit from $283 billion to $288 billion, and the temporary limit from $288 billion to $295 billion; 2) raise interest rates on savings bonds and long-term Treasury obligations to make them more attractive in the bond market (see BUSINESS...
...McNally, who operates a 100,000-chicken farm near Los Angeles: "If the Government had just let things alone, some marginal producers would have been dropping out of the picture by now. I mean the 'Mom-and-Pop' operations-the ones where Pop comes home from his regular job to gather eggs every night.'' McAnally figures that Benson's egg buying has simply encouraged marginal farmers to hang grimly on, inspired big operators to put more baby chicks into the production line for still larger surpluses this fall...
Some honorary awards, however, have been little used after their establishment. An honorary degree in Medicine was first given in 1783, and during the first part of the nineteenth century the special M.D. became a fairly regular Commencement award. With the introduction of the doctorate in science the M.D. fell into disuse. It was revived in 1909 for Charles William Eliot in recognition of his reorganization of the Harvard Medical School, but has not been awarded since. The Doctorate of Dental Medicine, which was first given out in 1870, has likewise had little...
...divestiture decrees will be favorably considered by Justice and Treasury Departments in hope of speeding settlement of Du Pont-G.M. case (TIME, June 27, 1957 et seq.), aiding in overall antitrust enforcement. But Treasury and Justice oppose as too liberal bill to free Du Pont stockholders from paying regular income tax on G.M. stock when they receive it, require only payment of lower capital gains tax rate when G.M. stock is sold...