Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European satellites from what was once Europe's granary into Russia's arsenal. This was the Molotov Plan, to counter the Marshall Plan, and it got a bureaucratic name: KOMEKON.† The goal was gargantuan: to create a new industrial empire, 90 million strong. The cost, in hardship, did not matter...
First they felt it would be an additional hardship on commuters...
Williams must love to coach, for he pursues his profession at considerable personal hardship. The numerous administrative details of modern football leave a coach little free time during the season, anyhow. For Josh, the hard grind has been made even more lonely because Mrs. Williams and their two daughters have stayed at home near Pittsburgh...
Taxes. The excess profits tax will probably be allowed to die in June. Excise taxes, long under attack by liquor and other industries, may be lowered where hardship can be proved. The 12% boost in personal income taxes, approved a year ago, may be allowed to expire in December 1953. But businessmen were well aware that the U.S., now running a $10 billion deficit, can only hope for real tax relief if the Republicans find a way to cut waste in military and civilian spending...
Slow Cure. In Mesa, Ariz., Justice of the Peace Jack Hunsaker decided that jailing drunken drivers "only works a hardship on wives and children," declared that from now on he would sentence them to church for ten consecutive Sundays...