Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every veteran of any of the last four wars (Spanish-American through Korea) who lived in Kentucky at the time he entered the service. Also eligible: veterans' widows, widowers, parents and orphaned children now under 18. Kentucky estimates that some 450,000 people will collect a bonus bonanza amounting to $136 million, but the total cost will be at least $260 million, counting administrative expenses and interest on bond issues. Kentuckians will be paying off that bill, through a new 3% sales tax, for 30 years...
TIME'S TV editor has (understandably) been letting his eyes stray from the set. Not a "possible threat for next season" but a positive menace in this one is NBC's Bonanza, "a color western, with all that blood in living (or dying...
...suppliers to the U.S. Trujillo's normal 111,157-ton share of the U.S. market promised to grow by more than 200%, giving an extra $29 million to the Dominican sugar industry, which Trujillo virtually owns. Last week the U.S. found a way to cancel Trujillo's bonanza...
...Mexicans now hope to provide up to 200,000 tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from 3,600 to 10,000 tons, providing a bonanza for the family of President-elect Roberto F. Chiari, which owns the country's biggest sugar plantations and refinery. All of these countries will be paid at the premium quota rate...
...canceled. In some places, it was impossible to register a birth, take out a marriage license or even obtain a permit to bury the dead. Because of falling water pressures, many tenants on upper floors of apartment buildings had to forgo washing. Millions of unscrubbed schoolchildren obtained an extra bonanza in the form of a holiday from school; teachers were on strike...