Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That might be an answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...
Carol's Diary. Juror No. 2 was Russell Janney, 64, Broadway producer, promoter and author of the bestselling The Miracle of the Bells. One of the steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
...British dollar crisis seriously affected Western Europe's hesitant start toward economic integration. In Paris the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) sat down to divide up the Marshall Plan dollars for 1949-50. The estimates of irreducible need from each country totaled about $5 billion. Since the U.S. Congress was expected to provide only about $3.7 billion, a working party was set to paring down the estimates. When, with blood almost visibly dripping from the knife, the working party reported, there were cries of pain from Britain. Direly worried about the immediate future,Britain had upped her original...
...failed twice before. Daubed with grease, Philip entered the forbidding water at Cap Gris Nez. Buffeted by squalls and strong tides, he was urged again & again by his father in a rowboat to give up. But Philip would not. Twenty-three hours and 48 minutes after the start, he waded ashore at Kingsdown, near Deal...
...that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...