Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election next November. Far from loosing thunderbolts of denunciation when newsmen asked for comment, Wagner dropped a yard-wide hint that he is ready to run for the exit if tapped for a job by the Kennedy Administration. "Being mayor." said Wagner, "is quite a drain on your health...
...Levers. It was no mean achievement to educate a democracy to the need for economic restraint, and Ike's short course came at a time when the realities of international competition and the gold drain would have made spiraling inflation a calamity. Ike's stress on community and individual responsibility, while it may have left some things undone, provided a reversal of a philosophy of centralization that had gone unbroken for a generation...
...leader again," exulted Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung-and it didn't mean Adenauer. Frankfurter Allgemeine lauded Kennedy's Cabinet picking as "a masterpiece of natural political talent." Even Kennedy's firm demand that Bonn hike its contribution to help stanch the U.S. gold drain was accepted with equanimity. Bonn's earlier proposal of help, admitted the Frankfurter Rundschau, had really been "an insignificant concession...
...defect due to the rotting substructure. Mrs. Kimball, however, insists that her section of the building was constructed with a list so that the late 19th century sailmakers could lay their goods lengthwise along the floor, then pour water over the cloth to shrink it. A drain gathered the water...
...economy after World War II. But they have been annoyingly frugal about giving out any, even though their coffers have been filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...