Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayer has been appearing on NBC's "Twenty-One," in competition with other contestants answering questions in a wide range of categories. Tonight he will attempt to answer ten and eleven point questions, worth $2500 for each point, or $45,000 in all. Last week Mayer tied his opponent in the questioning...
...White House called for a "flash" estimate of the Pentagon's 1959 budget, got an answer of $42 billion as a working figure. This meant probable expenditures of from $39½ billion to $40 billion next year, with an increased schedule thereafter. The notion of a $38 billion ceiling on defense spending is as dead as a rubber check, perhaps for many years to come. ¶ There will be no tax cut next year; there may be an Administration request to Congress to lift the $275 billion national debt limit, although budgeteers will make heroic attempts to stay within...
Certainly some new direction must be sought for disarmament. If it is ever to become reality, it must probably be achieved outside the unwieldy United Nations structure. A modified bilateralism, for all the instinctive fears it raises, is the best, and at this point, the only answer...
Probably many people have already told you that your article was an extremely fair and penetrating judgment of Professor Erhard's achievements. It gives a complete answer to the one question Americans have most regularly asked me. "What happened to all our taxpayers' money in Germany?" Your story is the best possible confirmation that the Marshall Plan was an investment in West Germany. The U.S. furnished the seed, Erhard tilled the soil and planted it; the cold war provided the hothouse atmosphere; the German people are bringing in the harvest. H. E. REISNER Publisher Made, in Europe Frankfurt...
Argentina, determined to broaden its economic base and achieve self-sufficiency, built factories by decree, not in answer to economic demand. In eight years Dictator Juan Peron transformed Argentina's economy from predominantly agricultural to predominantly industrial, but left it saddled with inefficient plants making products that are priced out of the market...