Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your TV reviewer of For Whom the Bell Tolls [March 23]. Bravo to John Frankenheimer for preserving the craftsmanship of Ernest Hemingway, whose use of the spoken word conveys both a poetic simplicity of character and a depth of emotion...
Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter (U.S.): The essential point about the Berlin crisis is that the Communists must understand in advance that the NATO nations "are firm in our resolve to use military power if necessary." Once the Communists understand that, they will not risk war over Berlin...
...challenge Soviet claims to the right to limit flight altitudes in the corridors. The Chiefs weighed the idea, agreed that the U.S. ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made by piston-driven C-47s, C-119s and C-548. The Chiefs got President Eisenhower's approval, sent the order, waited for the reaction...
Labor was in a swivet over Old Fair Dealer DiSalle's hard-hitting state labor-racketeering bill. The measure, now before the Democratic legislature, provides fines and imprisonment for labor leaders who 1) charter paper locals, 2) use union funds for personal profit, 3) buy stock in corporations with which they bargain collectively-or have bargained with over a three-year period, 4) accept gifts from companies with which they have bargained. Under the same bargaining terms, it also sets up a maximum of a $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment for any union member...
...income side of the balance sheet, there is much that might be questioned though very little room for change. Once the State has approved new forms of revenue, the City may choose not to use them, but it cannot employ any other taxes not approved; thus Wagner, if he wants money to spend, must raise it in the way the legislature has prescribed. About half of the additional $125 million revenue will come from fairly straightforward increases in the taxes on the gross receipts of businesses and public utilities operating in the City...