Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goal. The 88th has passed and sent to the President only four items of legislation. One was a measure lifting the already much-raised ceiling on the national debt. The others merely continued existing arrangements: the draft, the Korean war corporation and excise taxes, and the livestock feed-grains program...
...stunned. Mao felt-correctly, as was proved a few months later by the uprisings in Poland and Hungary-that the destalinization drive would touch off a wave of unrest. Even though Stalin had bullied and betrayed the Chinese Communists (as well as helped them, at a price, during the Korean war), Mao believed in Stalin's principle of centralized rule, preferred a stable Red empire to one in ferment...
around the world. Parker's shapely"51" pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
...rewriting their textbooks, and even the captains of U.S. business are somewhat amazed. The exasperating, exuberant 1963 economy, whose performance had for months been dismissed as puny and inadequate, is off and running in what the experts now believe will be the longest period of prosperity since the Korean...
...Administration has pumped money into the economy through the independent but willing Federal Reserve, and thus kept credit easy for the longest period since the Korean war. By putting through a 7% tax credit for investment in new machinery and by liberalizing tax write-offs for the depreciation of old machinery, it has given business an extra $1 billion a year for capital spending. At first, businessmen regarded these gestures as inadequate and unimportant, but their accountants soon got busy and showed them the savings they could make. "I think we've all been surprised at the amount...