Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep bumping into a stone wall? asked New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson of fellow Senate Democrats one afternoon last week. Clint Anderson's stone wall was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, whose strong position on issues back home loomed higher and higher, even while Ike himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that...
Nominee Burden is a great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, made a fortune in his own right -after graduating from Harvard ('27) and studying aviation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-as an aviation-securities specialist in Wall Street. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air (1943-47), Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics...
Even nature seemed to turn against Nehru; floodwaters swept down on the powerhouse of Bhakra Dam, showpiece of India's economic-development program, whose 740-ft. wall, when completed, will make it one of the world's highest. As they sought to stave off ruin, U.S. Builder Harvey Slocum and Indian engineers blamed each other for the catastrophe...
...down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget, but "their ultimate cost wall be more than $800 million. This illustrates how easily effective control of federal spending can be lost...
...areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape-cartridge, the first successful one in the industry. Burns moved RCA strongly into circuitry, controls and computers. RCA has developed the first medium-sized, all-transistor computer, hopes to find a big market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project, cut losses in half last year, expects soon to put it in the black. Result: RCA sales have jumped sharply for the first time in four years; first-half sales rose 17%, profits...