Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right Wing" Associations...
Programs for lopping big chunks off that $72 billion are piling up. New Hampshire's Bridges suggests nicks and slashes adding up to a hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling...
...seat," says C. L. ("Kelly") Johnson, Lockheed's vice president for engineering and research, "and at today's take-off and landing speeds, it becomes possible to eject pilots safely at near-zero altitudes-as low as 400 ft. at 850 m.p.h. This thing has the same wing-loading as an airplane. Crude as it looks, it's a very sound aerodynamic device...
...Fantastic Thinking." For example, the right-wing Chicago Tribune, which has never wholly concealed its distrust of many Eisenhower policies, in recent weeks has lunged directly at Ike for the first time, sneered that " 'modern Republicanism' is just a variant of New Deal recklessness." But ardently pro-Eisenhower papers also expressed concern that Ike's philosophy was shifting to the left. Many conservatives, said the pro-Ike Dallas Times-Herald last week, "fear that Eisenhower believes the only way the Republican Party can prosper is by outdoing the Democrats in so-called liberalism...
...over the U.S. for four-year scholarships of varying amounts. In addition to the scholarships. IBM will provide a special cost-of-education gift to each school chosen by its winners. The average annual tab to be picked up by the company once it has 200 students under its wing...