Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record peacetime deficit of $12.6 billion. Principal reason for the big red year: the now departed recession, which cut tax revenues by $6.2 billion, raised spending by $1.5 billion, for such antirecession programs as higher housing outlays and pump-priming public work projects. Other spending pressures: a $900 million post-Sputnik boost in defense, $1.4 billion turned over to the International Monetary Fund as of July 1 (but charged against the dying fiscal year), a $2.2 billion overbudget outlay for buying the bumper crops produced by the obsolete farm-subsidy program...
Havana, recruits are herded into the post movie theater (named after Charlie Chaplin) to see Redline films. La Cabana men are told in the booklet. Objectives and Problems of the Cuban Revolution, that "the large North American companies continually used [the old Cuban army] to smother the protests of Cuban workers." At Camp Libertad the Economic Bulletin teaches troops that "the socialist system, the most advanced known, eliminates exploitation...
...those years, 500 to 1,000 out of every 100,000 got mild infections without knowing it and built up an immunity. Since 1955, the heaviest incidence of polio has been among children still unborn at the time of the big epidemics. Researchers note that in the first post-Salk vaccine year (1956), the worst polio was among one-year-olds, and in the second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors begin polio shots for youngsters...
...over Talent. The Wichita battle started in the '20s when the Beacon was taken over by brothers Max, John and Louis (who died in 1953) Levand, who had learned the newspaper business under Publishers Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen in the carnival atmosphere (1895-1933) of the Denver Post. The Levands jazzed up the Beacon's copy, said that they would run the Eagle off the streets. The Eagle, under Publisher Marcellus Murdock, fought back with talons rather than talent, screaming: "Since the Levands came here ... a new word has come into use in Wichita's life...
...likely to find himself severely outclassed until he reaches the quarter or semi-finals, and as a result great ability is not a prerequisite for entrance. The winner of last year's men's singles was Frank Fisher, here doing post-doctoral research...