Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give federal aid to economically depressed areas, failed to revise lobby and campaign-spending laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter immigration law, but its changes fell far short of those urged by the Administration and left some 25,000 freedom-fighting Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a sort of legal limbo as "parolees...
...heartbeat and respiration rate had died, and the main radio seemed to be weakening. Calmly, Dr. Stapp told Dr. Simons the news: if he stayed up he would have to monitor his own pulse and breathing, take his own position checks and thus could not risk more than a short nap. Answered Simons: "Let's continue the flight...
...president of River Oaks. Banker Hubbard was in perfect position to make the dodge pay off indefinitely. But a suspicious officer of another bank boggled at several cashier's checks drawn on River Oaks State last fall, and he tipped the state bank examiner, who started investigating. In short order Hubbard resigned and River Oaks State Bank closed. The FBI was brought in, spent ten months tracking down thousands of checks written on 47 accounts in twelve banks and cashed as far away as Wichita, Kans. On their evidence, the grand jury cracked down. U.S. District Attorney Heard Floore...
...souped-up, specially streamlined MG that curved around his short frame like a futuristic coffin, Britain's Stirling Moss whipped over the rain-dampened Bonneville Salt Flats in northern Utah to set a new record for class F (up to 1,500 cc.) cars in the flying mile: 245.11 m.p.h...
...million Americans who are depending on Social Security to help protect their future face a new and surprising fact. After running big surpluses for most of its 20 years, the Social Security system is running in the red. In the fiscal year just ended, payroll taxes fell short by $125 million of covering the benefits paid out to 10 million retired workers or dependents. The $600 million that the U.S. Treasury paid as interest on the $23 billion Social Security trust fund invested in federal bonds more than covered the deficit. But this fiscal year the deficit will...