Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire civil defense program, a federal-state agreement limiting federal aid to schools in "impacted areas." Bob Anderson heard them out politely, led them away from such side issues and from their desire to remain only a study group. Said he: "Let's aim for some solid accomplishment." As the conference adjourned to let federal-state staffs work out details of its decisions, so much had been accomplished that federal representatives were already looking ahead to bigger programs that could be surrendered in coming years (e.g., urban redevelopment and an end to federal grants...
This time the tactics that had worked in the past might not work again, he said. The Solid South was weakening; Tennessee and Texas no longer regularly attended Southern caucuses, and the South's senatorial dependables were down from 22 to 18. It was clear that the dependables might not have the physical resources to win a filibuster. Secondly, they could no longer count on substantial aid, comfort, or at least neutrality from conservative Republicans who once helped Southern Democrats in the interests of defeating the civil rights legislation of a Democratic Administration...
...little to do with the nation's need." As the old soldier thundered on, a small stockholder, Mrs. David Davis, miffed because Sperry Rand had not passed out refreshments ("Other companies give you sandwiches and cold drinks''), stopped him in mid-charge, earned herself some solid-gold applause: "I love my country. I love to pay taxes. And I've waited an hour and 15 minutes to hear about Sperry Rand and dividends." Chairman MacArthur's report: both...
Under a blazing sun, the governors of Colorado and Utah last week took part in a historic ceremony: the opening of the first privately financed U.S. plant to make gasoline in quantity from a solid hydrocarbon. The place: American Gilsonite Co.'s new $14 million refinery outside Grand Junction, Colo. There, as Colorado's Steven L. R. McNichols and Utah's George Dewey Clyde each pulled a handle, water gushed from a pipeline, turned black with particles of Gilsonite...
Augsburg Apprenticeship. The solid routine of conducting he learned after the war as assistant conductor at the Augsburg Opera (where he also occasionally tinkled the triangle in the pit). In 1953 he tried out (with 64 other applicants) for the job of music director at Aachen. With a piano score Sawallisch prepared Aachen's cut version of Tannhäuser, learned on his way to the podium for the last act that a 20-page cut had been restored, sailed through the intricate music at sight without a bobble. He was promptly hired...