Word: furthered
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Kissinger's horrible example of how not to conduct limited war is Korea, the one limited war the U.S. has fought against Communism. All the confusions of U.S. policy popped up as fighting went on. Washington's fear of touching off a "big war" enfeebled U.S. planning to...
The Screening Process. Of the 3,000,000 pilgrims who visit Lourdes each year, some 30,000 are stretcher cases avowedly hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a...
By 1960 Social Security deficits are expected to be eliminated when the present Social Security tax of 4½% (combined employer and employee shares) on the first $4,200 of annual income is boosted to 5½%, with further 1% tax-rate jumps scheduled for 1965, 1970 and 1975. But...
Most businessmen assume that the rapidly rising U.S. population, expected to top 220 million by 1975, will progressively strengthen the nation's prosperity by creating more workers, new consumers, bigger markets, faster sales, greater industrial expansion. Last week Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. entered a...
To keep high price supports from boosting surpluses, the Government imposes acreage allotments on farmers who ask for supports.* Last year, in a further effort to hold down surpluses, Congress passed a soil-bank program to pay farm ers for taking acreage out of production. But the technological explosion makes...