Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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England Mutual Life Insurance Co. called its tightly packed offset paper The Spare Wheel ("For Use in Emergencies Only"), noted on Page One that its 30-odd news items a day, "unless otherwise indicated, are furnished via the international wires of the United Press...
...economists foresee no strong upturn in the near future. While the dollar growth in gross national product sets new peaks each quarter, inflation now accounts for more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues to set new records each month, is also offset by higher price levels. The. experts believe that people may develop a resistance to industry's high-priced products, which in turn takes more oomph out of the boom...
...Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which her husband, Walter Kerr, is drama critic). She made it clear at the offset that she was not qualified to talk about TV at all, "but like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs me is when, instead of the announcer, we are given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually...
...Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...
...combined employer and employee shares) on the first $4,200 of annual income is boosted to 5½%, with further 1% tax-rate jumps scheduled for 1965, 1970 and 1975. But Social Security experts admit that even then there may not be enough income to offset benefit payments, necessitating further tax increases...