Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgment the Lustron type of home cannot be satisfactorily marketed until such time as it can be sold for a maximum sum of $6,500 including the building site, and to continue to waste the taxpayers' money on such a project is absurd...
...statistics for labor's case, admitted there could be no such thing as a uniform wage increase this year. Said Nathan: "Some companies and industries can afford much more than others and some few cannot afford any raise and remain in business." Instead of concentrating on more money, most union demands centered on what used to be known as "extras"-health insurance, pensions...
Harry Truman, who likes to balance his budgets, was not committing the government to a program of deficit financing, i.e., spending more money than it takes in. Not everyone agreed with his prescription, the President admitted, but his opponents were either "men of little vision" or spokesmen for the "selfish interests...
...personnel are South America's best-trained, was a record 1,663,000,000 pesos (about $333 million), more than a fourth of the budget. Since there was no sign of a military threat against Argentina, and since Perón himself disavowed imperialism, what was the money for? Bigger & better parades...
Winston Churchill, with a sportsman's gesture, kicked in $100 for the defense of an old enemy: German Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein. The money, along with other contributions, will be used to hire a British lawyer for Mannstein at his war crimes trial Aug. 9. Meanwhile, Churchill spent a few quiet days entertaining Bernard Baruch, an old crony and his recent host...