Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans-but not those of other foreign wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World War II and Korea. Estimated cost over the next four decades: $22 billion. So, instead of saving the taxpayers $12 billion, the House bill would actually cost them an additional $10 billion...
...Tokyo seeing the Prime Minister. But though pleased that "in no nation in the world has the birth rate been cut so drastically in such a short time," she was distressed by the fact that few parents used contraceptives, instead relied on abortions, which are now legal and cost $2.78 if the mother can show that otherwise her health might be harmed, or that "unbearable" economic hardship might result. Margaret Sanger argued that too frequent abortions are also injurious to health, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi agreed. In the past year alone, there have been 1,500,000 abortions...
...Hungry Children." Painting their picture of American depravity, degeneration and despair, Soviet journalists used the propagandist's familiar technique of the half-truth and the fact wrested out of context. One recent article cited the high cost of U.S. medical care, but made no mention of compensating health insurance programs. The author also deplored the high tuition at Harvard, said nothing about tuition-free state and municipal schools, left the impression that only the children of the rich can go to college...
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the FTC finding that Carter's basic therapeutic claim is "false and misleading," ordered "Liver" deleted from the trade name. Carter Products announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court, continue the case that has already cost taxpayers more than...
...became a star, Ethel was a trouper. She knew what it was to make one-night stands in Main Street theaters, to sneak out of cheap hotels with the family luggage left behind in locked, unpaid-for rooms. She knew what it was to live in hall bedrooms that cost $9 a week, meals included. "It was a wonderful time to begin seeing America," said she, "just at the beginning of the changes that were to be so tremendous." For her, one-night stands were always good-in Jackson, or Little Rock, or Kalamazoo ("The celery was good in Kalamazoo...