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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deficit of $12.6 billion. Principal reason for the big red year: the now departed recession, which cut tax revenues by $6.2 billion, raised spending by $1.5 billion, for such antirecession programs as higher housing outlays and pump-priming public work projects. Other spending pressures: a $900 million post-Sputnik boost in defense, $1.4 billion turned over to the International Monetary Fund as of July 1 (but charged against the dying fiscal year), a $2.2 billion overbudget outlay for buying the bumper crops produced by the obsolete farm-subsidy program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: The Big Red Year | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Baby's Formula? Pushing for adoption of live-virus vaccine in the U.S. is Lederle Laboratories, which last week announced that it will boost its live-virus vaccine outlay to $8,000,000, build new production and testing facilities to produce annually 40 million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Progress | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

SOCIAL SECURITY FUND will run $87 million in red for fiscal year, which began July 1. Higher social security taxes, which went into effect last Jan. 1, are expected to boost fund's income over outgo, starting in 1961; fund's $1.5 billion deficit, accumulated over past three years, is scheduled to be repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...SHIRT PRICES will be boosted about 6% next month by Manhattan Shirt Co. on big-volume, $4 shirts. Other major makers are expected to follow move in industry's first major price boost on brand-name, medium-priced dress shirts since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...disposal plants should give a healthy boost to a drugmaker whose diversification (Aralen, Novocain, Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder, Molle Shave Cream, Energine lighter and cleaning fluid, textile and printing dyes, etc.) has already carried it far beyond the drug field. As a result, income last year topped $200 million for the first time in Sterling's 59-year history, with profits of $19 million ($2.42 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Sterling Idea | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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