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...Yourself. Once inside the U.S. dome, the Poles were confronted with an outlay of consumer goods as inviting as a mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox blaring out the latest in rock 'n' roll, washers, driers, electric ranges, electric can openers, a continuous fashion show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none...
...most farsighted program would be a larger appropriation spent over the six-year period. The outlay is not extravagant. This longer period means that main expenditure could begin after the fiscal year, satisfying economy hounds, and giving Southern communities time to consider their reward for graciously accepting the inevitable. At any rate, some measure should go through, because millions of post-war babies are crying for knowledge...
There can be no denying this conclusion in the face of increasing monetary outlays and a virtually dry tax base. Added revenue, the Governor maintains, must be found to counter anticipated inflation and to pay for planned and promised expansions in state social services, raises in the pay of government employees, spiraling pension costs, and the liquidation of state bonds with delayed maturation dates. Meanwhile, expanded state aid to cities and towns is urgently needed, he insists, to counter seriously inadequate municipal services and to reduce the tax on real property--currently standing at a per capita level higher than...
...doubts the wisdom of his budget he should use the information and research resources at his disposal, far superior to those of Congress, to create something satisfactory. If he considers seventy-two billion a justifiable outlay he need not invite challengers, who will come of their own accord. He should stand by it. In either case he should eventually present a budget each item of which he can sincerely defend...
Green admitted that it would probably be necessary for the Club to go into bankruptcy if it did disband, for its present debts total $2000, including the outlay on the impending production of Shaw's Doctor's Dilemma. He estimated that the receipts from this play, plus a consequent sale on assets, estimated at $700, would remove most of this debt...