Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than three years later, the revolutionary technique is being used in half a dozen U.S. medical centers from Seattle to Miami. Government cash is speeding the process; the Veterans Administration is especially interested. More than 200 American patients-aged 2 to 82-have now been on their feet within 48 hours after an amputation, and most of them actually walking...
...present issue is bright and readable. Some time ago Mssrs. Shaw and Plotz were clever enough to offer a cash prize to draw contributors; as a result, there's not a bad poem in the issue, if we except Eric Anderson's extemporaneous blues price which I am not qualified to judge but did not enjoy reading. John Lewis' "Certitudes," which think the right word is "reassuring." His poems in the March issue, particularly "The Uses of Poetry," had more glitter, but Mr. Lewis is a consistently skilled and mature writer. This poem, an anatomy of a dying grandmother, works...
...delays in deliveries, not to mention Johnson's appeals that equate parsimony with patriotism. As for consumers, the higher payroll withholding taxes beginning next week will cut their disposable income by $150 million a month.* And the speed-up in tax payments by corporations will reduce their ready cash by an average $125 million a month...
There is, however, a notable difference. In '29, the massive daily trades were due to panic trading. This time it is confidence trading. Armed with more cash than ever, big and little traders roam the market for cheap stocks that are likely to rise rapidly; then they sell, take their profits, and start searching about again. The result is one of the most speculative markets that Wall Street has ever known...
...forms insure that only "required" textbooks are exempted from the tax. The cost of processing those mounds of paper will surely exceed the revenues which the state would lose without this control. And one can only shudder at the thought of the confusion which will take place at every cash-register at every bookstore in Cambridge when the next semester begins...