Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William L. Alden, Edward F. Burke, Charles R. Brynteson, James R. Carman, Albert B. Carter, Jr., William H. Claflin, Daniel A. Cronin, William L. Curwen, Charles W. Detjon, Wilbur M. Davis, Jerome P. Gavin, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr., Bruce Harriman, Frederick D. Houghteling, Amory Houghton, Jr., Howard E. Houston, Frank S. Jones, Edward P. Lenahan, David C. Poskanzer, Walter B. Raushenbush, John G. Simon, Thomas C. Simons, and Jonathan M. Spivak...
Last year's top two are back in the other two specialties: Tom Wood and John Steinhardt, backstroke, and Win Briggs and Gordon Weir, diving. Sophomore Hugh Hartwell is a rising backstroke prospect and Frank Manheim, ineligible as a transfer student last year, may be the third man on the springboard...
Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best of the little magazines. Lately circulation and advertising had been slipping and costs rising. More important, the galaxy of literary lights who had once brightened its pages-T. S. Eliot, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh-have not shown there in the last year...
...Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...
Thus, for all Snyder's talk about periodic balances, this policy of writing blank checks has actually put the budget beyond practical control. Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. admitted as much. Said he: "For any given year, it is unpractical to count on achieving any specific goal, whether it is a balanced budget or a pre-determined surplus or deficit." Such items as crop support, in which the expense cannot be totted "up in advance, "can substantially change the surplus or deficit." In short, neither Snyder nor Pace had any idea when the budget would be balanced...