Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic reaction to the new offensive was keen and swift. Democrats found their handiest targets in Ezra Benson, whose plain, logical arguments won surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
...were working on nuclear-powered craft, one in submarines and the other in airplanes. One of the earliest and biggest diversifiers was Glidden Co., from paints into such products as sex hormones and oleomargarine. Locomotive-building H. K. Porter Co., convinced that the locomotive market was running out of steam, bought up 15 companies in eleven years, now makes steel, industrial rubber and oilfield equipment. Its sales have soared from $8 million to $64 million...
JAPAN'S HEAVY INDUSTRY is moving back into the international markets with cut-rate prices. On a contract to build 100 steam locomotives for India (to be paid for by the Foreign Operations Administration), the Japan Rolling Stock Exporter Association bid $81,470 each, 7% under the bid by Germany's Friedrich Krupp, less than half the $178,200 bid by Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton locomotive works...
...tenth day of debate on its Atomic Energy Commission bill, Speaker Joseph W. Martin brought the House bill to the floor under a rule limiting discussion to four hours, plus a short time for each proposed amendment. But the fight over public v. private power worked up more steam than even Joe Martin had bargained...
...people, 70% Moslem, are vigorous and nationalistic. In trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha was out and Colonel General Mehmet Shehu, hard-boiled army chief of staff and Minister of Interior, was in as Premier of Albania. Hoxha apparently still hung on to his job as head of the Albanian Communist Party...