Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument that we face a mutually exclusive choice between a much bigger federal budget and substantive tax reductions dangerously misreads the plain facts about the current economic situation. We need action along both of these lines...
...looked like a holiday. In their Sabbath best, 57,000 ladies' dressmakers poured from their cubicle workrooms one day* last week and onto the pavement of twelve mid-Manhattan blocks along and around Seventh Avenue, the throbbing heart of the New York City garment trade that produces 72% of all U.S. dresses. Babbling happily in the accents of Poland, Puerto Rico, Italy and Brooklyn, they marched half a mile up Eighth...
...Hollywood in 1937, added movie and radio stars to its roster, often by hiring other agents, with their list of clients, or absorbing their agencies. On movie lots, the M.C.A. agent became so powerful that he decided what stars would play in what movies, and for how much, along with who would write the script and direct it. M.C.A. tax men found new ways for stars to save on taxes, notably by getting a percentage of a movie instead of a big salary, thus spreading income over many years...
Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...
Great Eastern, a merchandising giant, young Billings tags along for the raid even though his father, a banker of ramrod-stiff probity, is a director of the company. Besides, Pressagent Billings is making a raid of his own on Haislip's pretty daughter...