Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.S. doctors learned last week how much it costs to wage all-out propaganda war against President Truman's national health insurance program: in eight months, the American Medical Association's press-agents had spent a whopping $1,394,000. But to the 3,942 A.M.A. members gathered...
They were there to promote "New Strength for America"-their own confident combination of productive know-how, acre-straddling plants and free enterprise. But they also exhibited a sign of rare self-examination. They had invited as their guests 49 students, 32 college professors and school administrators from all over...
An Ambitious Program. To preserve incentives, N.A.M. wanted the U.S. to 1) abolish present excise taxes except on tobacco and liquor, and substitute a uniform manufacturer's excise tax on all end products excluding foods; 2) limit the 1951 budget to $33.6 billion (some $11 billion below present estimates...
But cottonseed producers were happy. Southern Congressmen had pressured CCC to buy the seed from farmers at a support price of $46.50 a ton, higher than the local open-market price of $45 and under. Producers were, of course, the only ones happy. Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed...
¶ In a Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor.