Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion for fiscal 1965, and Congress has just raised the debt ceiling from $324 to $328 billion. Personal debt, rising faster than the Government's, is above $264 billion; this year it will climb another $26 billion, or more than the combined gross national products of Ireland, Israel, Norway and Belgium. The debt of the average American family now stands at an awesome 60% of its after-tax income for one year. In a generation, most of the facts and beliefs about debt have profoundly changed. Virtually dead is the Puritan ethic that condemned spending beyond...
Died. Murray Ireland, 72, president from 1954 to '60 of McGraw-Edison's Toastmaster division, a designer-engineer who in 1925 adapted for domestic use a bulky device formerly found only in restaurants, which lowered a slice of bread, grilled it, and at just the right moment popped it up, golden brown (or black), bringing sales of untold millions over the next 39 years; of a heart attack; in Elgin...
...became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
...countries can in some cases appeal beyond their own countries' highest courts to the European Human Rights Court. Set up in 1958 in Strasbourg, France, a commission of the Court has reviewed up to 2,000 complaints and passed on to the Court only two (it found for Ireland in one, against Belgium in the other...
Grace has purchased two Dutch chocolate producers, a dairy company in Ireland and a general food company in Guatemala, increased the production of its biscuit, candy and sugar companies in Latin America. Food sales, which accounted for only 4% of Grace's revenues in 1962, reached...