Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, by a 217-165 vote, an Administration bill-opposed by the Democratic leadership-to raise postal rates from 3? to 4? for first-class mail, 6? to 7? for domestic airmail, and by 30% to 120% for second-class mail. The bill, designed to wipe out the postal deficit by producing $430 million a year in new revenue, will probably be pigeonholed in the Senate...
...government economists tried to peer beyond the immediate prosperity and warn about its possible effects. With business so good, many companies are undertaking major expansions; as a result, the imports of steel, machinery and other supplies from abroad (mainly the U.S.) are running up a record trade deficit. The demand for goods of all kinds by the well-heeled Canadian consumer, as well as increased wages, is tending to raise prices. Although the cost-of-living index has held fairly steady since the first of the year, there are signs that it may be heading upward. Bread prices increased...
...staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician in addition to the Mellons, and all have been studying Creole in preparation for their patients. Patients are expected to pay only what they can−token payments of chickens, fruits and vegetables "to satisfy their pride." The expected operating deficit: approximately $200,000 a year...
...group staged many plays, including 11 Shakespearian ones, in its brief three-year history. But it could never hope to make money. Eve if the Theater was sold out every night--and it wasn't--there would have been a deficit. The small capacity and the relatively low prices (tickets ranged from $3.30 top to a low of $90--the latter serving as a "come-on for suckers," Bryant Haliday '49 recalls) assured this. In the long run, the players themselves were the "suckers," and the Brattle movie theater opened...
...acute that Congress should set up a commission to probe "all phases of medical education," Dr. Dominick F. Maurillo of Brooklyn told the New York State Medical Society. Main symptoms of the shortage: hospitals are scouring Europe and Asia to fill staff gaps left by a deficit of 7,000 interns...