Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress last week: ¶ The Senate and House passed and sent to the White House a military money bill of $39.2 billion, which fell short of Administration requests by only $19.9 million but notably revised some of the Defense Department's strategic planning. Specifically, Congress added $85 million to start boosting the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistic missile squadron strength from nine to 17, also $87 million to speed development of the second-generation, solid-fueled ICBM Minuteman. The Administration had wanted $260 million for a steam-powered aircraft carrier, but Congress said no, instead put up $35 million...
...Governor's resolution fell short of Rockefeller's original aim in one critical area. Not one Governor got behind Rocky's compulsory shelter idea, the strongest section in his resolution. Said Indiana Republican Harold Handley: "All we have to do is to prevent war, and then we don't have to have shelters." Added South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings aimlessly: "There is a right to live and a right to die. Housing, highways, health, and things of the living are more important. I doubt the public would accept such a program...
...derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed at the guards and screamed: "Look, he's real!" But no matter what the tourists did-"They seem to think we're exhibits in a zoo"-the guards had no defense except an official but effective maneuver in which they abruptly cut short their beat and went into a high-stepping about turn...
...Raney children. But another segregationist move was easier to check. Seizing on the city's high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for opening schools "in the face of a polio epidemic.'' In short order, the board got a signed statement from 35 Little Rock physicians that set things straight. Said the doctors: the polio is centered in preschool children; teenagers are safer in the relative quiet of high school...
...recession, said the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago last week, has turned into the sellers' market of prosperity. Rising demand from industry and consumers has increased delivery time on new orders and created scattered shortages for freight cars and trucking rigs. It has also brought a short supply of labor in many skilled trades and slowed the rate of gain in output per worker as the number of jobholders has increased. "Under these circumstances," forecast the bank, "it appears likely that any substantial further increases in demand may exert additional upward pressure on prices...