Word: two
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week American Can Co. and Continental Can Co., Big Two of the U.S. can-manufacturing industry (see BUSINESS), signed new threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour-more contracts with Dave McDonald's Steelworkers-and promptly announced that can prices would have...
...through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first a free...
...Algerian rebels had been holding off any negotiations with France hoping to make a show of world backing in the U.N. Last year they had come within one vote of a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, and at least one nation-Castro's Cuba-had indicated it would change its vote in Algeria's favor this year...
...final vote, the resolution failed for the second straight year to get the necessary two-thirds majority. The score: 39 yes, 22 no, 20 abstentions (including...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...