Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OVERSEAS TRAVELERS prefer planes to ships by 3-to-1 margin, says new Commerce Department report. Last year's ratio...
With such a slim margin, and against the hostility of right-wing members of his own party, Fanfani would have difficulty putting over his 20-point social and economic program. But there was widespread supposition that once Fanfani got in office, this extremely practical intellectual might be around a while. The national weekly Tempo boldly hailed Fanfani as '"the man who will govern us for the next five years...
...around recovery." FORTUNE'S predictions through 1959: the gross national product will rise $50 billion to $470 billion by the end of 1959, while production will jump 20 points from 128 last quarter to 148 on FRB's index. Both will be new records, "with a wider margin in G.N.P. over past peaks owing to great and steady expansion in services, which have not declined in the recession...
...Rayburn to announce the result of the roll-call vote on the session's most important bill. "The yeas were 317," he intoned, "and the nays were 98." Members gasped and whistled: the House had passed the Administration's reciprocal trade bill by a surprisingly decisive margin...
Except for growling by Arizona's labor-baiting Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, an almost millennial peace marked the early days of the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill. After the Senate Labor Committee voted it out a fortnight ago by a bipartisan margin of 12 to Goldwater, nobody in Washington took up Goldwater's cry that the bill was "milk toast." Labor chieftains kept a discreet silence-understandably, since Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy had consulted A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass while he was drafting the bill...