Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion defense budget by $662 million.' In recent weeks the Administration has been unfreezing these funds, plus millions more in unspent appropriations from previous years. Box score for new allocations since midyear...
...faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate was presented with a cakebox, and the modest explanation: "It's only a little ochugen' (a traditional midyear gift). The cakebox was stuffed with crisp 10,000-yen (about $28) notes...
Across the nation last week the phrase to describe the economy at midyear was that it was pretty fair but had "no bounce." If sales were good, as they were in most industries, businessmen worried that they were not better. If they were poor, as they were in some industries, when would they improve? The economic experts who were in overoptimistic agreement last January that the economy would soar in 1960. were now guardedly optimistic about the next six months, but were no longer talking of the "soaring' sixties...