Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll": WAPE is a request station, and on a typical broadcast day fully 90% of our musical selections are picked by listeners; less than 50% of the selections could properly be classed as rock 'n' roll. Our news department is particularly chagrined at the short shrift of "trickle of news every two hours . . ." Please let it be known that at WAPE there is service as well as showmanship, duty as well as diversion...
...Senate Democrats sharply attacked when an Eisenhower courier flew back from Europe with a veto for the second fat housing bill they have passed this year. Exploiting the peak moment of indignation, crafty Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called for an immediate vote to override. But his forces fell short by five votes, too weak again to crash the veto wall. Rocked...
...fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. While Moscow burbled of a "thaw in the cold war," new Communist aggression in Laos had plunged Asia into a crisis that, unchecked, might broaden, Korea-style, into a major conflict...
...change? As the huge enterprise cranks up this week, it splutters far and wide. Despite ceaseless new construction, the nation's unremitting birth rate leaves the schools short of 195,000 teachers and 140,000 classrooms. Another 1,300,000 bright-eyed youngsters invaded the schools last year, and this new school year of 1959-60 begins with 1,843,000 more children than the schools have room for. One-third of the schools are potential firetraps ; some are still using gaslight; nearly 75% of the high schools are too small to pay for anything resembling a nuclear...
...competition for available funds has been intensified by the crisis in Treasury borrowing. Since the Treasury, restricted by the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term bonds, can no longer sell such securities, it has had to compete against consumers and small business for available funds in the short-term market. Last week the Treasury's borrowing costs for short-term money rose to 3.979%, up from the 3.889% paid four days earlier, and the highest since the 4.25% paid during the bank holiday...