Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to openly recognize what America really is: not a nation with something resembling a cohesive national philosophy, cultural depth, and direction, but simply a place where one comes to exploit economic opportunities, with about as much "national purpose" as a stock exchange. What America stands for is making money, and as the society approaches affluence its members are left to stew in their own ennui...
...crewmen-eight of whom have flown together for at least six years-rightly feel that their assignments are the best in the Air Force, even if they sometimes have to shell out some of their own money on some presidential trips to cover their meager $12-$18 per diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas...
...American public is not going to stand for what we have been doing much longer," said Kansas Farm Bureau President W. I. Boone last week. "The public is not going to keep on putting out money without getting results." Like many another leader in the wheat-corn belt, Boone recognized that farmers have just about harvested their way to the end of public patience with a farm subsidy program that now costs a scandalous $6.6 billion a year and gets worse with each crop (current Government-owned surplus: $9 billion...
...president of the powerful National Bank of Cuba went Felipe Pazos, 47, ranking Cuban banker, sound-money man, and onetime International Monetary Fund official in Washington. To replace him in Cuba's central bank, Castro named Major Ernesto ("Che")* Guevara, 31, the Red physician, who thereby got vast power over Cuba though he is Argentine born and bred...
Silver for Christmas. Clay's view of payola ethics is intricate: "I have never demanded money from a record-company. When a deejay does that, he's dirty rotten. But it is all right for a man to put down $200 and leave a record for a deejay. If the deejay honestly thinks it is good, then he is justified in taking the $200 because, after all, that money is an investment for the record company. If the deejay turns down the record, the $200 is well spent. It saves the company money-they...