Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic Express could roar down the tracks with a highballing series of antirecession spending bills-and Republicans could grab onto the caboose as best they could. Items: ¶ The Senate shouted through a Lyndon Johnson resolution calling upon the Administration to speed public-works spending on previously authorized projects. The vote: 93 (including 46 Republicans) to 1 (New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton). Actually, the Administration's public-works speedup was under way without the help of the Johnson resolution. ¶ The Senate passed a $1.8 billion housing bill...
...month lab technician's job in a Puerto Rican hospital, grimly commented when asked if he felt free: "I feel hemmed in." With a posse of reporters yelping at their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped six times en route, vomited on roadside grass as cameras clicked. Later, taut-nerved Nathan Leopold flew to New York and on to Puerto Rico, at his destination said humbly: "You can't imagine how happy...
...will be short-lived if we avoid getting panicky and rush in to do too much, too soon." The one major problem to solve is prices-they must come down. "This recession is going to be cured primarily in the market place, not on Capitol Hill." In order to speed it along, "the best things would be for labor and management to get together and declare a truce on higher wages and prices until this thing is over." The Government can be of some help, though such highly publicized recession cures as a speedup in public works are overstated benefits...
...last week a $1.8 billion housing bill and a $500 million public-works bill were scorching along the Senate tracks, with Engineer Johnson holding throttle full-out. Johnson himself arose on the Senate floor to introduce two resolutions considering it "the sense of Congress" that the Administration should speed public-works spending. (Two days later...
...moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report the scenery on its unknown far side...