Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Day. Through Tuesday morning, tension mounted at the White House. The President slept till 5 a.m., lay quietly in bed till 7:15 a.m., was examined by the doctors again. Key officials began to slip quietly into the White House-the Vice President, now informed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General William Rogers. The White House press lobby began to fill, and the pressure piled up against Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, associate press secretary, who was standing in for Hagerty. At 8:55 Mrs. Wheaton put out a bulletin that the President was "progressing very well...
...into the open market, as it did in 1953 and 1954, float $1 billion or more in loans through "certificates of interest" on the surplus crops it holds. As a last resort, the Treasury can also draw down its $3.4 billion cash balance, i.e., uncommitted money in the till, to pay bills. Yet even with such devices, says Assistant Secretary Heffelfinger, "the debt may be right at the roof before we see our way clear...
...Keller's boat, grabbing a two-length lead at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge, hung on till the finish to triumph by half a length over Ron Garmey's crew...
...very eager that he should return for a second year of work in these longer forms, but did not know till later that, though equally eager, his means at the moment made this impossible...
...reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle. It was not till the Bizonal authorities called him to Frankfurt in 1947 that Erhard found his place, his platform and his apocalyptic powers...