Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many TV sets will be made and how many shoes sold. At 745 billion rubles (roughly $74.5 billion), it is on the same order as President Eisenhower's $77.1 billion budget, but to be really comparable, the U.S. budget would have to include the spending of U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T. et al. But if the Russian budget is hard to compare to the U.S.'s, it is nonetheless the biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live...
...Eighth Army's General Carter B. (for Bowie) Magruder apparently concluded that there was a connection between these two facts, and so, a fortnight ago in Seoul, he posted "new policies [that] restrict logistical support and various privileges to authorized dependents of personnel who are on a service-directed accompanied tour of 24 months." This was hard enough to understand even for people brought up in English. But Korean wives, most of whom are married to G.I.s serving standard, 13-month tours, soon got the idea: henceforth they were to be excluded from use of the PX. An Eighth...
...pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. permanently renounced his $3,000 monthly, salary as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Soon El Caribe blossomed with a solid page of names of army officers, cops and party hacks who hastened to say that they were delighted to kick in. But when the government proposed canceling Christmas...
...Volume III of his memoirs, Le Salut (The Salvation), just published in Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, who was once dubbed a spoiled prima donna by Franklin D. Roosevelt, insists that F.D.R.'s "bitter words showed his bad humor rather than a deep sentiment toward me. If he had lived longer, he would have understood and appreciated the reasons which guided...
...public responded to the production with cheers, promptly bought out the next scheduled performance. Would General Manager Rudolf Bing boot out Ritchard and restyle the work, as the Herald Tribune's scholarly Paul Lang suggested? By no means. If the Countess did not emerge as a great lady, said Bing, perhaps it was because "we don't even know who her parents were." As for the offending clothesline, he added, "I've had washing hanging in my own room...