Word: flow
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...Monroe Doctrine, does not demand any U.S. intervention. That view was affirmed once more in Secretary of State Dean Rusk's testimony before a joint closed-door session of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Rusk argued against a U.S. blockade to halt the flow of Commu nist arms to Cuba, or any kind of unilateral U.S. action to deal with Castro. "It is not possible any longer for the U.S. to act strictly in unilateral terms," said Rusk. "We are engaged nose to nose with the Soviet Union right around the globe. It is almost inconceivable...
Some 3,300,000 people enter New York's nine-mile-square "central business district" each day. The decline of city shopping as more stores sprouted in the suburbs has actually lowered the commuter flow by 10% since 1948, but as offices proliferate, the number entering the center of the city at rush hours has increased 4.6%. And as the buses and trains have grown more and more congested, more and more commuters are making things worse than ever by taking to their cars...
...branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count on a steady, bread-and-butter flow of institutional security buying, brokers were canceling plans to buy new cars and working longer hours...
...annual rate of $1.5 billion v. 1960's record $3.9 billion. By next year, predicted IMF Director Per Jacobsson, the U.S. payments deficit will have disappeared entirely. This alarmed many of the European delegates, who were keenly aware that the more than $20 billion that has flowed out of the U.S. into other nations since 1952 has been a major instrument in financing the expansion of world trade. If the flow is reversed, they fear the result might be to stifle further trade expansion...
Ticket manager Frank Lunden has set aside a block of approximately 4,300 seats for undergraduates. Past experience indicates this will be more than adequate. He said arrangements have been made to handle the large flow of students just before the game, so that gates will not be hopelessly jammed. He has also promised to keep the ticket office at 60 Boylston St. open and efficient on Saturday mornings until noon in order to make date tickets available to students contracting late dates. In short, he seems to be making every effort to please students...