Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duties and finishing her education, her chief worry during the next years will be to find a suitable consort. At a ball last fall, the royal court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave the dashing count a most undashing nosebleed, and by the time he finished out the evening with his nostrils stuffed with cotton, his brief career as Daisy's No. 1 romantic possibility was over...
...Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta...
When in 1947 the Italian government imposed a whopping tax on capital, Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci found themselves in an odd position. As Italian citizens, they were subject to the tax, but as diplomatic representatives of foreign powers they were specifically exempt. Experts at the Vatican State Secretariat studied the question, decided they should not have to pay, and the Vatican formally asked the Italian government to exempt them...
...course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska's Arthur Lewis Miller: "I was against a tax cut before I came home. I was glad to see the voters had about the same thinking; it gives me a little more backbone." A nose count of U.S. Senators showed that 70 would vote "no" on an immediate...
...doubt about this continuity. Many an economist has estimated that the current recession is worse than 1949-50 or 1953-54 because the unemployed percentages appear bigger. But the figures are not completely comparable, because both the definition and the sample have changed. Until last year, the census takers counted all workers laid off for 30 days or less as employed. Last year the rules were changed to count such workers as unemployed. In this fashion, the statisticians arbitrarily added another 250,000 to the unemployment totals. While the census takers have tried to adjust past figures to take into...