Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Humphrey struck out on his own. If long-range expenditures are not reduced, Humphrey predicted, the nation will see "a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make jobs." On television a fortnight later, Humphrey expressed confidence that the budget could indeed be cut and that" "if we can make a sufficient reduction now, then we would be in a position to reduce taxes a year from...
...Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, Canadians last week turned hotly angry with a U.S. Senate subcommittee that released evidence of Norman's Communist leanings in the 1930s. Politicians, editors and many others blamed the subcommittee for Norman's suicide leap from a Cairo building a fortnight ago. Then at week's end, harassed "Mike" Pearson admitted under intensive questioning in the House of Commons that "Mr. Norman, as a university student many years ago, was known to have associated quite openly in university circles with persons who were thought to be Communists...
Plotting the Show. The packagers of both $64,000 shows also produced NBC's The Big Surprise, which folded fortnight o ago. One of its planners offers this insight into the big-money show : "We always used a plot, an ideal way we would like the half -hour to go. If one contestant wasn't getting a good audience reaction, we would say that ideally it would be good if he got the answers for $500 and $1,000 and then missed $2,000. It develops a little audience antagonism if anyone loses right away. In a high...
...million in 1956. Spending on new construction hit a record high for the first quarter, and the Government calculated that business outlays for 1957 will reach $37.5 billion, or 6% above 1956. March retail sales were 4% above last year, and the first surge of Easter buying pushed last fortnight's nationwide sales up 9% over last year...
...company, largely family-owned, that never caused much stir outside Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 15,000), where its plant is the mainstay of the community. But in recent months in Wall Street, Lukens Steel has become not only a well-known but a very puzzling company. Twice in the last fortnight the New York Stock Exchange has had to suspend trading in Lukens stock-first because of a rush to sell, later because of a scramble to buy. Last week the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped in to see what was happening to Lukens...