Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the delivery of Harry Truman's State of the Union message, election-year politics took on a new urgency. Republican presidential candidates not only got their second wind; they chose the week as a good time to appear in a new light before the voters...
...light of these facts, any talk about the size of the cut that can be made in the overall figure, before Congress has actually studied the amounts required for specific purposes, is non-sense. It may be that economics are possible, but it will require a lot of looking to find them. 81.2 percent of the President's budget is allocated to national defense, the Marshall plan, veterans' benefits, tax refunds, and interest on the national debt. Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic...
...gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over 50% of the known industrial production of the world compared with 30% before...
...resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature...
...inaccurate. Not many buttons popped off vests after the Virginia, Rutgers, and Princeton games this season. Furthermore, members of the squad, if ubiquitous rumors in the Boston press have any truth behind them, have not found life milk and money on Soldiers Field this past fall. Taken in the light of the fact that Dick Harlow has been a sick man, the existence of dissatisfied undergraduates and disgruntled football players should surprise nobody. The surprising thing is that dick Harlow was able to achieve what he did, coaching a team to seven wins in 1946, and to a couple...