Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tlie rich grow richer, the poor poorer," wrote the bishop. "Year after year "has passed, crisis upon crisis, generation upon wasted generation, and while we live in the hopes of better days and of the public measures which shall remedy such fearful conditions, the evil grows, the wasting sickness prevails, and poverty increases its procession of victims...
...event, it is lear that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposal boils down to paying the Federal government's share of the cost of old age assistance (which is based on need) out of payroll taxes instead of general taxes. Moreover, contrary to what Mr. Campbell alleges, the poorer States would suffer greatly, if the present Federal grants for old age assistance were abolished. The official data show that the States as a whole would lose about $284,000,000 and the poorer States about $110,000,000 a year under the U.S. Chamber of Commerce original proposal (which according...
...Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
Results of yesterday's blood donations were "poorer" than had been expected, for 200 scheduled donors failed to keep their appointments, Arthur Bloom '56, Publicity Chairman of the Committee, announced last night...
After so candid an announcement, poorer Indians waited to see what the government would do. Then one day last week some 1,000 red-capped policemen simultaneously raided 25 Dalmia offices and executive bungalows. They seized hundreds of ledgers, sealed the accounting rooms, and mounted 24-hour guards over the premises. Dalmia himself was temporarily beyond reach: he was in Europe consulting specialists about the health of his children...