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...gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy herring boat-though not too big to take a steady handout from his wife's cousin Nettie. When he learns that his wife is pregnant, Billy gets desperate, tries to steal the money he is too weak to work for, and is accidentally killed.'-He goes to heaven, or anyway to some sort of celestial vestibule in which...
...money. When Nasser put his plan before the World Bank three years ago, President Eugene Black was cool. Nasser's military junta and the unstable condition of Egypt gave shareholders no guarantee that their investment would be protected. Said Black: "The Bank is a bank, not a handout business." While the World Bank hesitated, Nasser talked to the Russians, who are supplying him with arms from the Czech armament factories. The Russians offered to lend Egypt $300 million for 30 years at 2% interest, promised to complete the dam in six years instead of the 15 estimated by Western...
...fact, this is not aid but a handout of leftovers from the master's table made conditional upon fettering obligations . . . If there had been no Soviet Union, would the monopolist circles and the imperialist states render help to the underdeveloped countries? Of course not. This has never happened before" (animation in the hall, applause...
...progress is sure to run into a dead end if our citizens accept the philosophy that votes can be traded for a road or for a job for an incompetent relative, or for a favor for a friend or for a handout through a state purchase order...
...flying. But CAB thinks that the airlines underrate their strength, and points to the industry's own skyrocketing growth. In 1951 every U.S. carrier, both big and little, was on Government subsidy. Today only the smaller feeder lines and a few shaky trunk lines need a direct Government handout. Though they still earn heavy mail pay, all nine of the biggest carriers (American, Eastern, United, T.W.A., National, Northwest, Capital. Delta, Western) are self-supporting on their domestic runs. Overall estimates are that the industry will tot up a net operating profit of at least $150 million...