Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of Administration actions in the past few months have illustrated this new attitude. It is now well-known that the President personally over-ruled the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September when they raised the possibility of American intervention against Communist china during the hassle around Quemoy Island. The attack on an American plane off northern Japan a few weeks later gave the proponents of a "get tough" policy in the Far East still another argument. But the President insisted that the settlement of the place incident be consigned to normal diplomatic channels, a safe distance from newspaper headlines...
SINCE 1939, world trade has been out of joint. Buffeted by war and cold war, it limps along a narrow defile between the face of the Iron Curtain and the perils of the "dollar gap." This year there has been marked improvement. Europe is back on its feet (TIME, Nov. 29), and eleven of its trading nations, accounting for three-quarters of its imports from North America, are quietly dismantling their restrictions on free trade. In some cases (e.g., Benelux) controls have been removed on almost 90% of all dollar imports. The vast sterling area, which accounts...
...commercial quantities are on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Looking for a domestic tin source, the U.S. has laid out $2,894,576 in loans and loan guarantees to develop the low-grade (.4%) ore of the Lost River mine, 40 miles east of Siberia. Last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Defense Production, headed by Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, issued a chilly report indicating that the U.S. was taken in by some cool customers...
Radcliffe's joint education plan with the University has been its most significant step...
Wedding Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo...