Word: persons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
Unrealistic Realists. It was an escape of which he was not in the least ashamed. "There is an idea abroad among moral people," he wrote, "that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy...
Cramer, who is currently filled up and working as much as "15 hours a day" on a seven day per week schedule, prices his services at $5 an hour, or $3.50 a person when he can double...
...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...
...State of the Union message yesterday, Truman asked Congress to cut income taxes of both rich and poor by $40 per person, with an additional $40 reduction for each dependent. The estimated revenue loss of three billion dollars would be offset by increased levies on corporations...