Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government pocket to another would be washed out, and all Government revenues would be treated as income. Such capital expenditures as Federal National Mortgage Association mortgages, small business and rural electrification loans, and Government stockpiling would be taken out of the budget. Ruml would also set up separate corporations, float bonds to finance such capital expenditures as $4 billion worth of federal investments that could produce income to pay for themselves...
...Showgirl Sophie Tucker finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie...
...June, LaPointe and Awatter returned to the dark blue mountain; this time the needle spun even more wildly than before. "We struck it rich," cried Awatter. But LaPointe restrained his enthusiasm until they could rent a float plane and land on a small lake to take a closer look at the mountain. "It was nearly all metal," said LaPointe...
...Lieut. Frank Gillan. When the second torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted out of the Perth like a ghost...
After months of tortuous indecision, a French government was at action stations last week. The order: buoy up the nation's economy. With each succeeding day (including Sunday), the government sinks $6,000,000 deeper into the red. Millifranc notes are pouring from the government printing presses to float government payrolls, but soon the inflation must be plugged or the economy will be in danger of foundering...