Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make certain the world understood that the U.S., until the final step was achieved, would continue to deal from strength, he phrased this course of action another way. Said he, commenting on the Defense Department's record peacetime military budget of $38 billion for fiscal 1958: long-range spending for planes, missiles and military research will continue "until we have some certainty that we have reached agreements that are enforceable. That is, where there is good faith on both sides, demonstrated good faith. Now after that happens, then I would expect long-range programs . . . and expenditures to come down...
...poke." Dulles flushed. Pounding on the table with clenched fist, he snapped: "If Congress is not willing to trust the President to the extent he asks, we can't win this battle. If we have to pinpoint for every country, including the Communists, every step we are to take, this resolution will not serve its purpose. The emergency is great and the military situation is one of great danger...
...size of the first-run turnout indicated that few people had followed Poujade's instructions to boycott the election. His pride stung, Poujade called a press conference to announce (as his wife plac idly nursed their new six-weeks-old daughter) that he was taking the unusual step of filing for the runoff when he had not even been a candidate in the first election. He flooded the district with 800,000 pamphlets, held a mammoth rally in Paris' biggest arena, charged the Mollet government with "black cowardice" in its concessions to the Algerian Moslems. "Who among...
Real wages kept a step ahead as Americans piled up heavy overtime pay; the average factory production worker with a wife and two children took home an all-time peak of $76.54 a week, $1.30 more than the month before. Paychecks will grow even fatter. In February alone, hourly wages of some 500,000 U.S. workers in the transport and electrical industries will move up 1¢ to 3¢ under cost-of-living escalators. Warned BLS: "Rising costs and strong aggregate demand will very likely underwrite a continued climb in consumer and wholesale prices...
...will press ahead in semi-autonomous Sicily where operations are governed by a more favorable oil law. This week, as Gulf's field in Ragusa, Sicily hit 18,000 bbls. a day, it opened a 14-in. pipeline to the port of Augusta, announced plans for a sharp step-up in production...