Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke up for the tight-money policy. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in a speech to the World Bank-IMF meeting noted that the U.S. is "gaining in the battle of inflation," but stressed "the continuing vigil we must keep to attain economic growth along with, and based on, sound money." Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin warned that nations yielding to inflation "will not have a higher standard of living but a lower...
...Radio Moscow broke the rhythm by announcing the abrupt scrapping of the current five-year plan (1956-60) before it had even reached the halfway mark. In its stead there is to be a seven-year plan running from 1959-65. Radio Moscow tried its best to make this sound like progress: "Large new deposits of various raw materials and sources of power have been discovered in recent years," and thus "there are possibilities for creating new enterprises and industrial centers not envisaged in the sixth five-year plan...
...with over 40 years' experience-I cannot carry out my task as given to me at the moment without more forces. In recent years the submarine has, without any doubt at all, gone a very long way ahead of the devices with which we are presently equipped to sound and destroy...
...Nkata Bay the notables of the Thonga tribe coldly boycotted the Prime Minister's indaba (powwow). And at Mzimba, headquarters of 170,000 warlike Angonis, the sound of jungle drums rolled down from Mzimba's leopard-haunted mountains, as Mmbelwa II, paramount chief of the Angoni, said: "Your Honor, Nyasaland belongs to the Africans, not to you and your white...
...reporting to the people" about Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...