Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with him and take away the automatic dishwashers and potato peelers, along with, of course, nuclear weapons, missiles and other useless innovations? He should be very pleased to have all the men he wants for parades, and their bows and arrows or muskets slung over their shoulders...
...increase federal income taxes on U.S. insurance companies from $319 million this year to $500 million. The bill had the endorsement of 34 life insurance companies who write 70% of U.S. life insurance. They would have had to pay even more under an old tax formula, which was to take effect again this year when current stopgap formulas expire...
...through its heady revolution from guns to guided missiles, from props to jets, from steam to atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses at schools such as Caltech and M.I.T. Though a devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped...
...Then one day he happened to meet a courteous and high-domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus. One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to take a spin in space. The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liquid") with an "incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna and an equally lovely brunette named Ilmuth. It ended with a reassuring lecture up there from a great teacher ("No, my son, your world is not the lowest...
Although he would not comment specifically on the problems he would deal with, Kistiakowsky said that "my office will strive to mobilize for the President the best objective scientific and engineering advice." One of the original members of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Kistiakowsky will take office in mid-July, replacing James R. Killian...