Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
...silvery Tu-104 jet airliner in Frankfurt, and in his honor West Germany grudgingly broke out the Soviet Russian flag. First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan had come to sign the $750 million, three-year trade agreement recently negotiated between Bonn and Moscow (TIME, April 21). As the ink dried on his signature, Mikoyan delivered a short and pointed speech: "If the American crisis continues it will have its effect on Europe. There will be more sellers than buyers in the world. Keep that in mind...
...never seen fit to print was a statement of its annual earnings and condition. Last week, in a detailed story on its financial page, the Times broke precedent and published its first annual report. With characteristic reserve, the Times announced that its ledger had been kept in good, black ink ever since 1896, when it was bought by the late Adolph Ochs for $75,000. Total profits...
Last week Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson told of the red-ink results-which spelled out in big figures why the Administration has resisted a deficit-increasing tax cut. Instead of a $1.8 billion surplus for fiscal 1958, ending June 30, the Federal Government will run up a deficit of more than $3 billion as it is. Total federal spending will be up from the estimated $71.8 billion to "well over" $73 billion. And revenues will be down from $73.6 billion to about $70 billion...
During a long strike, the bills for Schleppey's services have given some publishers heavy deficits. It took Schleppey several months to break the back of the I.T.U. strike at the Grand Junction (Colo.) Sentinel, and an ex-bookkeeper for the paper recalls: "I used red ink for a long, long time." In the solidly unionized city of Haverhill, the I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb...