Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate last week devised a compromise plan to save face for Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had rushed through the House of Representatives a bill calling for a flat $20-a-head income-tax cut (TIME, March 7). The compromise was proposed only after it became clear that defections among Senate Democrats would defeat the House scheme. As outlined by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Senate measure would give the head of each household a $20 tax reduction, plus $10 for each dependent other than a spouse...
...admirals summoned for a gold-braid court-martial. The time had come at last to deal with Aneurin Bevan, the vat-dyed black sheep, the unregenerate guerrilla of British Socialism. "He's had it this time," said one leader grimly. "Only a miracle of the fishes could save...
Just as things seemed to be going better in his struggle to save South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million), Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week ran into serious trouble. He was caught in an ambush set by the discredited but still powerful rearguards of his country's past-feudal warlords, religious fanatics and big-city hoodlums, with French colonials hovering indistinctly in the background. About 30,000 well-armed troops of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects (long subsidized by the French) were out in coalition against Diem's national government, lobbing mortar shells...
...save pilots of jet planes that falter on take-off or are disabled by enemy fire during low-flying missions, the Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Ltd. of Higher Denham, England, has developed a quick-acting parachute that works even when an airplane is still running on the ground. When the pilot triggers the mechanism, lots of things happen fast. An explosive cartridge blows the canopy off and tosses seat, pilot and all 80 feet in the air. Then an automatically timed gun opens small parachutes that steady the tumbling seat. An instant later, the timing mechanism opens the main parachute...
Titanium Bolts. Standard Pressed Steel Co. of Jenkintown, Pa. has started producing titanium bolts for air frames and airplane engines. Main advantages of the bolts over the conventional steel type: they are stronger and less subject to metal fatigue, save as much as 1,000 lbs. in a plane's weight. Price: about...