Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...issue by pressing for a cease-fire and large-scale withdrawal of Quemoy troops to Formosa. If there were a "dependable ceasefire" in the area, said Dulles pointedly, "I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a cease-fire ... it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Ike backed him up: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there...
Still, why does the U.S. refuse to make a flat yes-or-no statement on its intentions so that everybody knows clearly how things stand? Simply because, as one ranking Pentagon officer put it last week, there are "certain conditions" under which the U.S. would indeed be foolhardy to unlimber its guns for Quemoy's sake. So far, the Communists have hesitated to test U.S. intentions-a situation that Candidates Nixon and Kennedy themselves would have done better...
...rate of sales-whether he earns a profit or not. Chrysler ran $5,400,000 in the red last year, still had to pay $31 million in local and state taxes-and rumbled that it might move elsewhere. When Ford located a new Falcon plant in Ohio, Williams put on his straightest face and complained that the company was depriving Michiganders of jobs. This year the Republicans' most effective campaign document is a list of 40 key companies-from ACF Industries to Philco-that have left Michigan. In the past decade, the number of manufacturing jobs in Michigan dropped...
...recession 1958), sales tax returns slumped, welfare costs soared. Soapy Williams, heir to a budget surplus of $21 million in 1949, was faced with a $110 million deficit by mid-1959 and practically no borrowing power. His proffered solution: pile a 5% profits tax on corporations, put a U.A.W.-endorsed income tax on middle and upper incomes, e.g., a family of four earning less than $6,333 Per year would pay nothing...
...buddies to wait a moment; he wanted to buy some hair tonic. He elbowed back through the crush-and set his course for another exit. Once in the street, he started running. He had no destination, only a direction: west. Victor Jaanimets, 29, Soviet seaman from Estonia, wanted to put all the distance he could between himself and his ship, the Russian liner Baltika, which brought Khrushchev...