Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning that high Government spending would in the long run bring on a depression "that will curl your hair" caused hair to stand on end all over the U.S. Editorial writers cried of "idiot spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters and postcards last month. Talk about the cost of Government even reached Broadway; in Li'l Abner Marryin' Sam sang: Treasury says the national debt is climbing...
...last week the fire in the barn had even singed the man who threw the match. To the chairman of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee came a letter urging the Senate to restore $8,205,000 (to replace overage Coast Guard aircraft) that the House of Representatives had whittled from the Treasury Department's budget. The pleader: Treasury Secretary Humphrey himself...
Hanson Robbins and John Deknatel will skipper the Harvard entries. Brown, which has produced consistently strong teams in the past few years, together with Coast Guard, Dartmouth, M.I.T., Rhode Island, Trinity, and Yale will provide the opposition...
Highlight of the season is the competition for the Coast Guard Bowl, which is awarded to the winners of the New England Intercollegiate Championships. These will be held this year...
...sundry expenses, including, we suppose, plane fare and tranquilizer pills. Some of the concrete requests include $260,000 for "recreation facilities." These include a tennis court in Iraq, a clubhouse in Yugoslavia, a swimming pool in Port Said, a mountain retreat in Indonesia, a beach house on the Gold Coast, and a cabin boat for Martinique. Moreover, the State Department requests $135,000 for American participation in the non-existent Suez Canal Users Association...