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...domestic scene, Truman insisted that he hates deficit spending as much as Harry Byrd, but that the present red-ink budget is only temporary. Besides, there wouldn't be any deficit spending if the Republican Congress had not cut income taxes. His overall objective was steadily to expand the economy to absorb the million and a half young people who come into it annually and such expansion would in itself wipe out the deficit by increasing national income. This cannot be done without the measures outlined in the Fair Deal...
Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...
...want to play "Big Time" football. It has no part in Harvard's program. But we can continue to play traditional opponents with reasonable success if we contract for reasonable schedules, if we expand and reinvigorate the Employment Office, and if officials stop what is in many cases unconscious discrimination toward athletes. We can play football without the shouting and recriminations that have characterized our unhappy exploration of the big-money game...
...also wheeled out its new, though hardly changed, Lincoln, the last of its 1950 models. Henry Ford confidently expected his company would have its biggest year ever, said he planned to step up production 20% to 5,000 passenger cars a day during April, May and June. To expand further, he bought a 200-acre plot in Cleveland last week on which to build an $80 million engine plant and foundry...
...school's 550 students. The school had already fostered five other New Jersey institutions for the mentally retarded, served as the model for such schools as far away as Australia. The next step was a $1,000,000 fund-raising drive to build a new research center and expand the school's facilities...