Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albany Tower, this is 163. I'm in the vicinity of Albany flying VFR [Visual Flight Rules] on a training flight from Mansfield, Mass., and I think I'm lost. Over...
...much tougher for Republicans to achieve the image of the party best able to assure prosperity. Many voters still associate the G.O.P. with depression, think of the Democrats as looking out for the little fellow and his purse problems. Although President Eisenhower has made the sound dollar-basic to true prosperity -the keystone of his domestic policy, Gallup showed these results on the question of which party is most interested in holding prices down...
...toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped...
...novelty, consumer credit caused no traffic jam in the stores. Reason: the hard-to-get goods in greatest demand, such as automobiles, refrigerators and TV sets, were conspicuously missing from the credit list. And lest the Russian shopper think that the consumer millennium is just around the corner, Premier Khrushchev, on his way back to Moscow from Peking, told a Vladivostok audience that the U.S.S.R. has no intention of trying to equal U.S. automobile output. "We will use automobiles more rationally than the Americans do," he said. "We are going to establish taxi pools, where people can use cars when...
...success of Treasury Secretary Anderson's magic fives caused many private money authorities to think that the worst pinch in the money market may be over and rates may level off. While Anderson will be competing with the heavy seasonal demand by business for funds to finance the building of Christmas inventories, the fact that the issue was so heavily oversubscribed suggests that the 5% note was anything but a one-shot wonder...