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...Republican years of 1947-48, has ruled it ever since. He loyally supported the pump-priming experiments of the New Deal, helped pioneer the nation's first social security law, and backed the first reciprocal trade agreements. His basic philosophy on taxes: "Get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose." During his tenure, the feathers added up to $380 billion in tax bills...
...Defense Department last week reported 607 more U.S. casualties in Korea, the fewest in six weeks. The list brought total U.S. losses in more than a year of war to 77,390. The breakdown...
Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, said that the increased staff will be paid for out of gifts and tuition. He added, "We have tried to shorten the hours where it would hurt the fewest people...
Because delivery is difficult, there are few live births in such cases; most liveborn joined twins die in infancy. But medical history records perhaps twoscore cases which have reached maturity, usually joined at or near the rump, where fewest organs are affected. Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children...
...yesterday's match, Sam Hoar turned in the top individual performance by allowing his opponent the fewest points (20) of any Penn performer...