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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pangs & Population. Where will the money come from? Mostly, from higher 1959 revenues due to improving business and increasing numbers of taxpayers. Also, from increases in the old reliables: taxes on cigarettes and whisky, plus sales taxes, higher income taxes, corporation taxes. Beyond that, states are searching sharply for untaxed revenue sources...
...No.1 before this extraordinary session was Russia's seven-year economic goals. Khrushchev was still trumpeting his familiar promises-80% more industrial output, 70% greater farm production, 62% more consumer-goods production-but, significantly, he omitted his 1970 target date for overtaking the U.S. He promised shorter hours, higher pay, a front door for every family, income tax repeal, "greatly reduced" police surveillance ("There are now no cases of people being made to stand trial for political crimes") -and he breezily explained that such "incentives" would make his goals possible...
...such illnesses, against 2.5 for men. ¶ Children under five had the highest illness rate, 4; oldsters over 65 had the lowest, 1.6. ¶ Days lost from work totaled 356,500,000; from school 273,200,000. The survey, first of its kind in 20 years, recorded a higher-than-average illness rate because the invading Asian virus boosted the incidence of influenza above normal-how much, the pollsters were not sure...
...have been a strong advocate of Federal assistance" to higher education, Horn remarked, but "if this is the way Federal aid is to be administered, I do not want any more...
...weeks he spent in Cambridge, the firm's consultant visited both Harkness and various restaurants in the Square, comparing cost and quality. Lack of choice and the necessity of buying full meals at Harkness were the major faults he uncovered, according to Stewart. Since Harkness uses a higher quality of food and must pay union wages, its prices are not unreasonable, it was found...