Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, Ike pointed to water-pollution control and vocational-training programs; they should, he said, be handed over to state and local governments. Possibly a time of high national prosperity is the right time to start closing out many of the federal subsidies to farmers, veterans, states, cities. Somewhere along the budgetary line, something will have to give-and, as the satellite news made clear, it cannot be defense...
George Washington still gazed forth as stolidly as ever, but the 40 millions of crisp $1 bills that went into circulation in the U.S. last week were not the old familiar aces. Along with a new Treasury Secretary's signature- the new singles displayed the first design change in U.S. paper money since the Bureau of Engraving and Printing added the Great Seal in 1935. On the green side of the new dollar appears, for the first time on U.S. folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece...
...Along Manhattan's Bowery last week, sad-eyed, dirt-dappled bums lazed in the sun that reaches their curbs and benches now that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno...
...needs, notably spare parts and lubricating oils. What they have sent has often proved inferior, e.g., low-quality newsprint that tears in Cairo's high-speed Western presses. Cracked a Cairo editor: "Pravda must go to press at 6 o'clock at night." The domestic economy twitches along in austerity and torpor, with tea and sugar scarcely obtainable except at black-market prices, and the regime invoking military law in an effort to force butchers to sell meat at new, government-set prices. The price of kerosene, essential for cooking and lighting in the fellah's household...
...hollow. On a tiny island near Jamaica, Koli, the chief fisherman, and Savannah, the most eligible young woman, have a bumpy time getting married. They like each other. They don't. They do. They don't. A rival comes. Then a hurricane. Maybe Koli's drowned? She loved him along. He's saved. New doubts. New quarrels. Final reconciliation...