Word: formers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international unit" (IU). One IU equals the amount of goods and services that $1 could buy in the U.S. during the period 1925-1934 (see chart). Clark takes his figures for Russia from official Soviet statistics, but adjusts them in an involved process of his own invention. (His former computations about the Soviet economy were at one time heavily criticized; since then, however, they have been strikingly confirmed by independent research of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
...Premier in this uneasy coalition was youngish (44), handsome Gaston Eyskens, who as former Finance Minister had been the scarecrow of Belgian taxpayers. His tax collectors, to whom he had given virtually inquisitorial powers, had outraged Belgians, who are highly imaginative deduction hunters. A learned, conservative economist, Eyskens will push strict government economy, lower taxes, fewer state controls...
...uncommon disease. Last week, scare headlines reported that 1949 had already produced about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
Bill Instructs. Mother & daughter agreed on William D. Pawley Jr., the 28-year-old son of the transit magnate and former ambassador to Brazil. Elizabeth met Bill last March in Miami while she and Glenn were still doing their gossip-column hitch. Every afternoon for a week Bill gave her driving lessons, every night he took her to a party. During the Easter holidays he flew to the Coast. Last June, after school was out, mother & daughter flew to Miami to stay at the Pawleys'. There Elizabeth and Bill announced their engagement...
Last January when energetic, 37-year-old Sidney McMath became Arkansas' governor, he decided to do something about it, called his good friend and former school chum, Alfred Bryan Bonds Jr., home from his job as training director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to help out as State Education Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something...