Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...weeks. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 15.42 points, biggest break since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. The slide was accelerated by the fact that when the average eased through the previous 1960 low of 599.10, which had withstood two previous onslaughts, a storm of selling was touched off. At week's end the average was down to 585.20, lowest level in 19 months...
...FOREIGN STEEL and other imported construction materials by Texas highway department raised storm of protest from foreign nations. None can be used in any state highway construction project. Texas steel producers claimed that cheap foreign steel was hurting business...
...Many Customers. On opening day last June, 60,000 people, more than twice the number anticipated, came to Freedomland. This might have been good, but it was bad: the crowd struggled to walk through the semicompleted park, raised a storm of complaints and bad feeling. This was only the beginning of the trouble. A few days later, a stagecoach overturned, injuring ten people. Then three hoodlums robbed Freedomland's cash-control office of $28,836, and escaped. They were nabbed last week with only $14,563 left...
...Francis Townsend, who proposed to give every oldster over 60 a pension of $200 a month with the proviso that he spend it within the month; Huey Long, Louisiana's "messiah of the rednecks," who, in a rare moment of insight, called himself "a wedded man with a storm for my bride...
Force-feed to Health. Roosevelt, too, says Schlesinger, knew himself as the bridegroom of a worldwide storm. When Biographer Emil Ludwig asked him his purpose, F.D.R. replied, "To obviate revolution." Just when the Supreme Court seemed to stymie Roosevelt's legal reforms, he resumed the offensive, pushed through Congress social security, banking and utility reorganization, collective bargaining and a graduated income tax. It is not entirely clear from Schlesinger's account whether Roosevelt jumped or was pushed into the second New Deal. There was the pressure of 9,000,000 unemployed, the falling debris of social experiments that...