Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer that question with his budget message for fiscal 1949. With an expected federal income of $44.5 billion, the President recommended expenditures of $39.7 billion (up $1.9 billion over last year). Major items: $11 billion for defense, $7 billion for international commitments, $6 billion for veterans, $5 billion for interest on the debt. Also included in the proposed expenditures was a $1.3 billion chunk to start the wheels rolling on the new domestic legislation the President had proposed. The expected $4.8 billion surplus, said Harry Truman firmly, should be used to reduce the towering ($256 billion) public debt...
Deanna Durbin, 25, flouted Hollywood tradition by announcing the breakup of her marriage in a barely audible voice. (The marriage, to 45-year-old Scenarist Felix Jackson, was her second.) Deanna had her attorney murmur simply: "There is no difficulty ... of any particular public interest. Each of them declines to discuss the matter...
...Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...
Subsequently, San Antonio's Slick-Urschel Oil Co. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946) took over the drilling for a half-interest in the field. It drove down another 1,500 ft. Last week the big news came out. Slick-Urschel had struck oil and it looked like the biggest strike in years. The news sent Plymouth stock up 15½ points in two days...
Promoters in other cities have been watching the production with great interest. Perhaps they plan to institute similar productions all over the country. And well they might. An election marathon has infinitely greater possibilities than six day bicycle racing. It is a much funnier and far less tiring form of indoor sport...