Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absurdities, this rare glimpse into what the Russians divert themselves with on Saturday night does not come off at all badly. It would be interesting to speculate on the debt that the people's artists behind the Soviet cinema owe to our own capitalistic horse-opera tradition. Even the cavalry arriving at the last minute is not omitted, nor the victory of a handful of heroes over thousands of the wicked...
...promised beforehand, leave a budget surplus. But the black-ink estimate amounts to only $500 million, a mere razor's edge as sums in the federal budget go. And just to give the Administration some room to maneuver, the President asked Congress to lift the $275 billion statutory debt limit "temporarily" through fiscal...
Cheese & Beef. Two massive budget items, unchanged from 1958 levels, can be chalked up to past national defense: $5 billion for veterans and $7.9 billion for interest on the national debt. The total bill for past and present national security adds up to about $60.2 billion, or 81% of the entire budget, leaving a mere $13.7 billion for everything else...
...DEBT MORATORIUM has been declared by British creditors of low-flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...
...debt has already pressed to withni less than 750 million dollars of the presetn 275-billion limit...