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Given that decision, a Tory Chancellor dedicated to free enterprise might normally have been expected to concentrate his fire on governmental spending, i.e., on the welfare state. Yet to the dismay of his strongest supporters, Butler's heaviest blows fell on private spending. His budget called...
...Time." As the President's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, unlike some of his predecessors, e.g., F.D.R.'s Steve Early, Harry Truman's Joe Short, is always available to the press. He is a man of huge energy, is happiest when the work load is heaviest. He is respected by reporters as an expert craftsman who knows precisely what newsmen need and will do everything in his power to deliver the goods, e.g., he 'was out of bed by 6 a.m. each day for the first two weeks in Denver to see the President and issue...
Although Pan American had served liquor since the 19303, domestic lines did not start until Northwest cracked the ice in 1949. Now almost all major U.S. lines serve liquor aloft. On first-class flights, American, United and T.W.A. pour free drinks. Heaviest pourer: Western Air Lines. On 18 of its 90 daily flights along the West Coast it serves free champagne, and stewardesses are instructed to keep the glasses brimming. Western, which plans to add three more champagne flights this month, claims 93% of its passengers accept at least one glass...
...were railroads, industrial plants, cities and houses, most of which were massively insured against every disaster but the one that struck. "There just isn't any flood insurance available." lamented a spokesman for the New Haven railroad, whose $10 million losses were among the ravaged area's heaviest...
...begin to meet the claims for damage to real property, e.g., buildings and machinery, which are most susceptible to water damage. Insurers believe that they can economically cover only property which can be moved out of the flood's path. Thus, in the Northeast, the companies' heaviest payments will be for wrecked or damaged cars, boats, and goods in transit. The small percentage of homeowners who had all-risk personal-property floaters also can collect for damage to belongings...