Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices should be confined...
...whether the night's show is in Washington, D.C. or Houston, St. Louis or Bridgeport, it is still a staple...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
Administration economists profess not to be worried. The real, noninflated gain in G.N.P. for 1953 was 4.4%. that for 1955 a fat 8%. What knocked the average off was a minus 1.9% in the 1954 recession and a minus 3.2% last year. Says one top-level Washington economist: "The boys who average these things out catch us at the low end of the cycle. If you judged 1959 and 1960 in overall terms, we would have nothing to worry about...
...Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that won federal approval for P-B to create what amounts to an auxiliary postal system. Soon after, young Walter Wheeler moved up to general manager, by 1938 was president...