Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned to ask for $500,000 to extend the program to some 30 lower-income-area schools...
...economy" will produce a $9.1 billion increase in the Government's income. Insisting that his revenue forecast is "realistic," the President noted that after the 1953-54 recession, the jump in federal revenues ''was more than the increase estimated in this budget." He asked Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain...
...spelled the end of a useful eight-year-old system, the European Payments Union. Foreseeing such a day, 17 countries of Western Europe pledged themselves, back in 1955, to settle their foreign-trade accounts through a new organization called the European Monetary Agreement. Unlike E.P.U., it will not automatically extend credits to nations that run a deficit in their inter-European trade. Without the cushion of automatic credits, all Western European nations-and especially France, which ran up a $460 million deficit in E.P.U.-will have to keep inter-European payments more closely in balance than before. Along with this...
...Roosevelt-Litvinov agreement of 1933, under which the United States, after years of back-turning, extended diplomatic recognition to the Communist regime, stipulated that U.S. clergymen be permitted to live in Moscow to minister to the spiritual needs of Americans there. Four priests served in this treaty-made capacity, all of them Assumptionist fathers, a missionary group with a special concern for the churches of the East. In 1955, when the U.S. State Department refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South...
...Lindsay's two goals--his eighth and ninth of the year--helped the Hawks extend their unbeaten string...