Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the Summit. The theme of peace was very much on his mind all week. After his six-day New England trip, the President got up on a platform at Maine's Dow Air Force Base to say farewell to 5,000 waiting, waving down-Easters. He was working, he said, toward one end: "Peace on this earth, for which we all aspire." On the flight to Washington aboard the Columbine, he discussed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles plans for the Big Four conference at Geneva on July 18: the long-heralded Parley at the Summit with...
...conference with the 20 top Latin American envoys (who were delighted by the unusual gesture of hemispheric solidarity). He invited 26 congressional leaders from both parties to another White House conference on Geneva this week. He approved the official list of nine U.S. delegates* accompanying him on the trip-the first peacetime journey to Europe by any American President since Woodrow Wilson's fateful sojourn for the 1919 Paris conference...
Hats on for the King. A saddlemaker, upholsterer, clockmaker and silversmith before he took up painting, Peale as a young man sailed up and down the seaboard, painting pictures for his fare. When his fellow townsmen at Annapolis offered to underwrite a trip to study at Benjamin West's London studio, young Peale seized the opportunity. Once there, Peale made no attempt to hide his Revolutionary sympathies, ostentatiously refused to lift his hat when the royal carriage passed. But he worked hard. Back home again after two years in London, Peale quickly made a reputation with wealthy Philadelphians...
...Anyone? But in this bright picture there were plenty of dark spots. Many a dealer called the boom "profitless prosperity," as he cut his profit as low as $25 per car. New sales gimmicks blossomed every day. Miami's Colonial Pontiac Agency offered a weeklong, all-expense-paid trip to Paris for every new-car buyer, had 20 takers in the first week. With each Studebaker sale Washington's Lee Butler gave out one share of Stude-baker-Packard stock, free gasoline for the first 1,000 miles. Los Angeles dealers brought in customers by offering a stripped...
...remote areas of the world." Dr. Neher's latest ray-hunting junket was to one of the world's least seductive places, the North Magnetic Pole in barren arctic Canada. Last week he told a Pasadena meeting of the American Physical Society about the results of the trip...