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...national debt: $5 billion. ¶ Tax refunds to individuals and corporations: $2.1 billion. ¶ Army & Navy: $11.2 billion (by far the largest single item). ¶International affairs: $3.5 billion-including $1.2 billion for the loan to Britain and $14.8 million for U.N. ¶ Veterans' services: $7.3 billion. ¶ Transport, communications and natural resources: $2.6 billion (including $443 million for atomic energy). ¶ Agriculture: $1.4 billion (onefourth of it for support of crop prices). ¶ Social welfare, health and security: $1.7 billion...
Behind him, on the desk, he left his night's work: the last Sunday comic page of Terry and the Pirates he would ever draw. Its frames held deftly drawn figures, caught in the restrained gestures of a farewell. The fadeout was appropriately up-to-the-minute: a transport plane lifting into a sky that was streaked like the wan sunrise outside his studio...
Over Shanghai's airfields on Christmas night the fog rolled, and China's budding air transport system had a situation it was not qualified to meet. One incoming airline pilot had no experience with G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach, the modern homing system which U.S. airlines still hope to get). Two others tried to work out their approach problems on ill-maintained radio sets, which failed them. Result: all three crashed, in the worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Injured, 18; dead...
External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. last week rolled out the first of ten stratofreighters for the U.S. Army. It proudly announced that it had $200 million in orders for military and commercial planes. But Boeing had been forced to scrap its plans for a two-engine transport, had lost over $1 million in the first half...