Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going along part way after another long balk, the House voted to take off the 3.26% ceiling on savings-bond interest rates. But Congress' failure to lift the interest ceilings on other long-range U.S. Treasury bonds, the White House hinted, might call for a special session this fall. The President's surprisingly successful stand on legislative matters has thoroughly rocked Democratic leaders accustomed to using their huge majorities for give-a-little-take-a-lot compromises with the White House...
...felt about the same. The Senate promptly passed the bill on what members counted the same as a unanimous vote: only oddball Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon and oddball Republican William Langer of North Dakota opposed. The House voted next day, 352-52, sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President Truman's veto...
...months, Vandenberg will add new sets of pads to handle the increasing supply of production-line missiles. Vandenberg-trained SACmen will eventually form nine SAC Atlas squadrons, stationed at seven ICBM bases now under construction in Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and Washington. Meanwhile, the men in helmets-green for safety, white for command, orange for fuel and brown for the contractors' personnel-are ready to fire their first Atlases from the pads of Complex...
...only the thick, juicy spending slabs but the little, thin million-dollar slices can unbalance the delicate 1960 budget, warned the White House's sharp-eyed budget inspectors last week. Deputy Budget Director Elmer B. Staats told the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that the bureau's January forecast of $77 billion spending had already been raised "significantly" (to about $79 billion, by relatively trivial millions). Result: the paper-thin $70 million surplus appears to be wiped out completely...
Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...