Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Aug. 17 cover story on the Sahara is an enlightening and timely article. With the public support of the U.S., France could quell more quickly the fanatical, marauding minority in Algeria, and could concentrate on opening the riches of Algeria's Sahara for the entire population's, and the world's, benefit...
...greatest personal ovations ever given by Europeans. In Great Britain the outpouring was in a large sense a heartwarming welcome to an old, tried friend. In West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman willing to help France realize its aspirations for a return to national...
...them aside until next year. It took the committee months of floundering to settle on a measure to finance highway construction. Faced with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave up fortnight ago and postponed any further action on the President's request for the rest of the session...
...effects of the Treasury's reliance on short-term borrowing in the midst of an overall tightening of the money supply (TIME, Aug. 31) were readily apparent. By drawing $1.6 billion in new cash during the last month, Treasury financing-despite Federal Reserve Board buying support-boosted the rate on 26-week Treasury bills to a record 4.15%. The yield on most long-term Government bonds was more than 4% for the first time since the 1930s, and some yields rose as high as 4.8%. Corporate bond yields also rose; unable to sell their public-utility offerings...
Military historians have recorded the tactics-an airdrop too far north of the main body at Arnhem, bad communications because of radio breakdowns, not enough air support in foggy weather, the capture of the complete Allied battle plan by the Germans. But it remains for Daniel Paul,*then 29, a captain-surgeon with the 16th Parachute Field Ambulance, to tell the personal story of that terrible battle. It is, he says, a story that "demanded to be written." He tells it deftly and quickly-as he would suture a wound...