Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sides, the economic issue no longer cut so sharply into Republican chances. Thus, in hard-hit West Virginia, a Democratic poll taken last May showed 73% listing recession as the top political issue; this month the same poll showed recession tumbling to 49%-alongside the state's road-building program, at 48%. Similarly in New Jersey, Republican Senate Candidate Robert Kean's prospects have improved in startling proportion to a 34,000 drop in unemployment since mid-June...
...they think it's hell"), showed off his widest swings for an intimate, friendly audience of 2,300 in Wilmington, Del. "Eisenhower went to Korea and surrendered to the Communists," he said. The Administration has lost most U.S. friends abroad "by doublecrossing them at every turn in the road." He also paid his tribute to Vice President Nixon for campaigning with "verbal garbage...
...tenements screw manufacturer, and Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, 51, suave, quick-witted ex-FBI man, lawyer and wheelhorse Democrat, have hit nearly all of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
...Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota; Ernest McFarland, Arizona; Thomas Dodd, Conncticut; William Proxmire, Wisconsin; and Philip A. Hart, Michigan. These Senate candidates are no more radical than the President himself. The difference between the Democrats and Mr. Eisenhower is the difference betwen vigorous, imaginative administration and stand-pat, muddle-of-the road government...
...extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...