Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhesus and Baker a squirrel monkey. From Cape Canaveral, in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile, they had soared 360 miles into space before being plucked from the sea. Their journey beggared imagination, for Able and Baker were the first living creatures to travel through space and return from it alive...
...Able-Baker flight opened vast reaches for human attainment in biology and medicine (see SCIENCE). But far beyond that lay a plain but wondrous fact: if a pair of monkeys, subject to the same physical stresses as man, could return safely from space, so could man. The first human to break the chains of the planet might be named Glenn or Carpenter or Schirra or Shepard or Cooper or Grissom or Slayton. These were the U.S. Astronauts, one of them to be selected as their nation's first space traveler. But whoever the man who returns from space...
...return for the loyalty he demands, Old Pro Halleck is especially careful to care for his walking wounded. When Indiana's William Bray gave in to Halleck and voted to sustain the Rural Electrification Administration veto, he feared that it would cost him his career. After the vote he told Halleck he was finished-there were just too many REA supporters in his district. Halleck got on the telephone, called Republican leaders in Bray's district (Martinsville), told them to rally behind the worried Congressman...
...funds as a "conduit" for investors, freed the funds from paying federal tax so long as they distributed their capital gains and at least 90% of their dividend income to shareholders. Since the funds pay out all their earnings, this in effect frees them from paying taxes. In return for this concession, Griswold and the funds agreed to back other business tax proposals that President Roosevelt wanted. Griswold also helped draft the regulatory laws for the industry that came...
...aging small-fry troupe beds down in fleabag hotels, gobbles chow mein breakfasts, and endlessly reprises corny routines and lyrics straight from Mama's potboiling hand. Ordeal by stage mother drives gentle would-be husband No. 4 (Jack Klugman) to the suitcase-packing point of no return, and June elopes with a chorus boy. And just when Mama Rose's star-making dream seems footlight-years away, the Big Break comes for Gypsy-Louise in a Kansas burlesque house, where she begins by taking off Mama's apron strings...