Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train rolled into Washington's Union Station, Harry Truman was wide awake and in high good spirits: he had proved to himself that the old road show still brought in the crowds...
...decreased tax receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...High Hopes. Thus, with high hopes, the United Steelworkers set out last week to deal with steel companies who, after five strikebound weeks, were making conciliatory sounds. In contrast to the simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have...
Under the high overcast the air was sharp and clear; from the control tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
...Fair Deal. "We call it the Raw Deal down here. It's no deal at all," said he. He agreed with Sims that farmers should diversify their crops, but said that "cotton is all some of them can do. Some go into truck, but truck is high risk along with high profit. It takes money to switch from cotton...