Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON, March 25--President Eisenhower warned Nikita Khrushchev today that the Soviet Premier can't order, bluff or blackmail him into attending a summit conference...
...WASHINGTON, March 24--President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan won French and West German approval today for their formula for offering Russia a summit conference this summer...
...WASHINGTON, March 24--The Atmoic Energy Commission denied vigorously today that it has bottled up any information on radioactive fallout. AEC Chairman John A. McCone called also for a "government-wide review" of information policy on the sometimes deadly aftermath of nuclear explosions. He suggested a meeting of all agencies concerned be held late...
...chief economist, Raymond J. Saulnier, that price increases not only aggravated the recession but contributed greatly to causing it: "These price increases were a major factor in limiting demand." Saulnier singled out for attack the rises in "heavy industries and those producing automobiles and other consumer durables." What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since mid-1958, the Fed's Young said that industrial prices have climbed 1½% above the previous record of 1957. That...
Outside the Washington offices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...