Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tots Teeth. At week's end, arriving exuberantly in Texas for the Easter holiday, Johnson announced new plans to expand the Great Society. At a bill-signing ceremony to celebrate a two-month extension of the medicare registration deadline-held characteristically at a federally financed home for the aged in San Antonio-Johnson said he would ask Congress next year for "increased insurance benefits, across the board, for 21 million beneficiaries" of social security, plus free dental services under medicare for children...
Warm Invitation. Mrs. Gandhi left Washington with several specific aid promises from the U.S. To expand education in India, the President announced plans for an Indo-American Foundation, to be financed by $300 million in rupees held by the U.S. in Indian Food for Peace payments. To alleviate India's food shortage, he proposed shipping an additional $500 million worth of U.S. surplus commodities to India by year's end ($500 million worth is already scheduled) and appealed to other nations to match the U.S. contribution...
...weakness lies in the nationalized 53% of Austrian industry: steel, aluminum, oil, chemicals, leather, paper and lumber, plus the deficit-burdened state railway. Hobbled by price control, high taxes to finance lavish welfare programs and a chronic lack of capital, both nationalized and private industry have been loath to expand into new product lines or even to modernize plants rebuilt after World War II with $1 billion of Marshall Plan aid. On top of that, much of private industry is fragmented into pint-sized firms-25% employ no more than 20 persons. Predictably, they turn out goods in small volume...
Close to 90% of the tickets have been bought by out-of-staters, most of them from neighboring New England states, New York and New Jersey. Seeking to expand that market, the sweepstakes commission has sent an investigator to Europe to explore the possibility of selling tickets there. Meanwhile, other state legislatures are showing interest in having lotteries of their own. New York's legislature has approved one; voters will pass on it in the fall. New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes was unable to get an income tax through, is now considering a lottery bill. Vermont...
...Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance so far this year has not turned away a single U.S. firm that is seeking to invest or expand in France...