Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem. To the east of Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs, $680 million for the conduit and pumping lifts, $50 million for irrigation...
...Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal stooges, including the hated.Public Prosecutor J. Domokos. With the new Soviet, peace offensive in full swing, the period of show trials seems to be over-at least for the time being...
Milton Eisenhower got off to a flying start on his five-week swing around South America as the President's personal emissary and factfinder. Despite a rugged schedule of protocol visits and wreath-layings, he managed to meet and listen attentively to scores of political and business leaders. In Venezuela, where everybody from President Marcos Perez Jimenez down told him that they hoped Congress would not cripple their $2.5 billion oil industry by restricting petroleum imports, he also managed to get away for a jeepback tour of the vast eastern ore fields from which Bethlehem and U.S. Steel hope...
...armed, too. Example: the Labor government adopted the biggest arms budget in Britain's peacetime history. Korea put teeth into NATO (SHAPE now counts eight divisions and five airplanes for every one it had in 1950), thereby raising hopes that the balance of world power will one day swing to the West...
...baby boom is still in full swing: 971,000 babies were born in the U.S. during the first three months of 1953, some 29,000 more than in the same period last year. And 1952 produced the alltime record number...