Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect record or no, the President did not consider signing the bill, which still contained down payments to start 67 new civil-works construction projects not in the budget (eventual cost: $800 million) that he had objected to the first time. The only congressional change: a 2½% across-the-board cut in funds for all projects. This cynical gesture at economy, the President pointed out, would only impede "orderly work on going projects and result in an increase in costs instead of a saving...
Chief testing point for Big Joe was its ability to keep a passenger alive. From the moment that it was hurled from its Cape Canaveral pad by an Atlas-D, the capsule's recording system went to work. Ten microphones registered the take-off noise-120-130 decibels (plenty loud, but not unmanageable for well-protected ears). Temperature readings recorded interior and exterior heat from more than 100 different points. Though Big Joe climbed 100 miles above the earth, malfunctioning booster engines in the Atlas kept the bird from reaching out to its planned distance; after thundering about...
Conscientious Labor Secretary James Mitchell works hard at trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages...
Conscientious Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strives to be a good Republican shepherd to U.S. farmers, hopes mightily to lead them out from under the oppressive fold of Government regulation, so that they can profit by their own ingenuity and hard work, and not by scandalous subsidy. Last week Ezra Benson's conscience clashed with Jim Mitchell's conscience over migrant labor in one of the few public Cabinet rows of the Eisenhower Administration...
...home outside of town. In an hour the flames had reached the first trees above, and the whole ridge to the north and west of town roared as the fire leaped through treetops, gobbling up great stands of ponderosa pine in one crackling rush. Townsmen quickly set to work spraying and shoveling under flames that licked down toward houses at the edge of town. National Guardsmen rolled in with bulldozers to make a firebreak. Fire fighters rushed in from Colorado, Montana...