Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The federal government should increase income taxes in order to finance a disaster insurance program, Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman of the Economics Department, recommended in testimony yesterday at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on flood control in New England.
Mission to Paris. The Communist arms deal with Egypt was a large and astute coup for the Russians, in effect enabling them to leapfrog the northern-tier defense (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) just set up by the West. It promised to be an embarrassment to the West, but to neighboring Israel...
Speculation on a final settlement or a permanent peace under such conditions has an air of unreality about it. Even if the immediate military crisis subsides, the prospect for real peace between Israel and the Arab states will also ebb a little farther, as it has done after each successive...
Bin-Busting Crop. The trouble began to develop two years ago, when Canada exported only 41% of its bin-busting 614-million-bushel wheat crop instead of the usual 55%-60%. Rust and harvesttime rain cut last year's crop to 309 million bushels, but exports again fell off...
Since 1930, fuel economy has climbed 30% because of the new high-compression engines. Acceleration in the low-and middle-speed ranges is almost twice as fast: a 1946 model took 24 seconds to go from 10 to 60 m.p.h., the average 1955 model does it easily in less than...