Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman took a long, not so happy look at the budget last week, and reported that the deficit would be a huge $5.5 billion, instead of the mere $873 million he had predicted in January. It was the second biggest in U.S. peacetime history (the biggest: 1940-41's $6 billion...
...land. "They ought to be able to hold their present boundaries," he says. He has worked with a tent-housed agricultural group in the desert, and knows that if the country can support the population of three million the Jews are planning. The biggest problem today is handling the huge group of immigrants recently absorbed into the country...
...Suzanne Roig was the daughter of Georges Roig, an old friend of the novelist and one of France's pioneer aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced with invisible, ether-borne messages linking the plane and its 48 passengers to the earth below...
...Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon...
Until today, traffic has had to wind for fifteen minutes through the side streets of New Haven before regaining the parkway. The delay in building the extension was caused by the huge West Rock palisades, which necessitated a 1200-foot tunnel...