Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spendable per-household income in 1960 will reach a comfortable $5,600 a year, up 5% from 1954. Before-tax income per household will be $6,180. The tax bite will ease. While government costs will rise 15%, they will be paid for by soaring revenues from prosperous businesses. Personal taxes will drop from today's $32.9 billion to $29.6 billion. Social Security benefits will more than treble during the decade, reaching $4.4 billion...
...Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London; the movie made her a household heroine to the nation. Hollywood also introduced her to Movie Idol John Gilbert, a passionate love affair, and the beginning of discontent with her husband and with her life...
Protestant groups have been quarreling and differing among themselves far too long, he declared, and "we have presented a devastatingly unconvincing picture to the rest of the world. Enjoined by the Lord, through the manner of our lives, to show the reality of an engaging household open to all men everywhere upon belief through God's free gift of His Son, we have too often lived a ridiculous caricature of such reality...
...slash in the purchase tax on household textiles, other than wool, from 50% to 25%. This would help the Lancashire textile industry, which is in the midst of a serious slump (TIME, April...
...Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable of providing good entertainment within modest limits...