Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The one big argument still to be resolved was the size of the budget for fiscal 1951. As it stood last week, Harry Truman was expected to approve a budget of about $42 billion (compared with 1950's $43.5 billion). The Government would take in no more than $38...
*Rumors that excise taxes would soon be pared put a last-minute crimp in Christmas sales of taxed luxury goods. Moaned one Detroit jeweler: "I wish they'd either repeal that tax or stop talking about it."
They are a different breed of men from the Roosevelt advisers, who were fire-breathing liberals, poets and intellectual revolutionists. These are the quiet, less flamboyant men whom a political revolution produced. None of them embarrasses Mr. Truman by an ostentatious display of intellect. From them Mr. Truman seldom hears...
Still in the dark, without clues or suspects, Detroit police suspected that the deadly attempt against the Reuthers stemmed from their successful anti-Communist crusade within the U.A.W. Another theory was that it resulted from their attempts to stamp out the numbers racket that once flourished in the Ford River...
Editor Harold Ross, a man who gets a lot of professional mileage out of his frustrations, appeared in person to answer. He identified himself caustically: "I am the editor of an adult comic book . . . to put it heavy-handedly . . . and I commute back & forth through the terminal." A poll by...