Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of this country are in serious economic trouble," cried Michigan's Pat McNamara. With Massachusetts' John Kennedy, McNamara co-sponsored a bill to fatten state unemployment benefits and make them run for 39 weeks instead of the now-usual 26. Tennessee's Albert Gore introduced a bill to boost federal aid to state and local governments for public-works projects. In keeping with a grand design sketched out by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased...
...falling off in the import of heavy capital equipment from the U.S. than from any government action. The Tories, who succeeded in their 7 4-months in office in doing something for almost everybody, will ask the Canadian voters for a parliamentary majority solid enough to ensure them the usual four years in power. As the campaign opened, they seemed to have a better than even chance...
...school system, Schoolmaster Goldfarb seemed worn down and overwhelmed by the troubles that beset him. The night before he was to testify before the grand jury he had mailed a letter to the police department asking that a patrolman be stationed inside his school. Next morning he appeared as usual at his office before 8, took up some routine matters with his staff, at 9:30 left the building, having said that he was due to go to the courthouse...
...test rocket, the Jupiter-C. Its first stage, which contributed most of the push into space, was the familiar, well-tested Redstone, fitted for the occasion with slightly longer fuel tanks, and burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets, 40 in. long and 6 in. in diameter. Atop the bucket was a single, 80-in., solid...
...Running as usual only to win, Ireland's Ron Delany at the Boston Garden won his 18th consecutive indoor mile. Delany, who has the stuff to outsprint just about every mile record on the books, was perfectly satisfied to finish in 4:05.3, far in front of the pack...