Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Floating upward on a tide of red ink, the national debt reached a new alltime high of $280,851,429,657.13 in late October, the Treasury reported last week. Prospect: the debt will keep floating higher until heavy tax payments start rolling in next January...
...words did not mean that German militarism is stirring again: the new General Staff college is rising in Hamburg, historically one of the least martial-minded of German cities. And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...
...first husband was Lawyer William V. O'Connor, now California deputy attorney general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
...Iowa (5-0-1)-held even as late as the third quarter by Michigan, erupted late for a 37-14 victory...
Married. James MacArthur, 20, rising cinemactor (The Young Stranger), adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Playwright Charles MacArthur; and Joyce Collins Bulifant, 20, socialite actress; in Solebury...