Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany was a top objector to Eisenhower's weapons offer, urging that any decision on such military problems be postponed at least until next spring...
...Onetime Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going...
Shield & Sword. Last spring, in the wake of Britain's decision to cut its armed forces in half by 1962, the Atlantic Council gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises...
...that in 5½ months he had not yet been in office long enough ''to achieve all the measures of tax reform" he would like-a hint he doubtless hoped would not be lost on the voters, who will probably go to the polls again in the spring...
...carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will spring up a whole network of individual U.S. airline terminals for domestic passengers that will eventually cover 655 acres...