Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economist places the present price of government (including social services) at 40% of the total of all income, personal and corporate, in the nation. (This compares with about 25% in the U.S.) The Economist believes this proportion is likely to rise because:1) defense spending is going up, 2) established social service programs call for expansion and 3) new governmental services may be established...
...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson also moved fast. He trimmed an estimated $40 million a year, at present volume, off the retail prices of his products, and put out a new 10-in.-screen table model television set at $239 (compared with $325 for G.E.'s cheapest old model in the same size). Willys-Overland's President James D. Mooney found that he, too, could trim prices. He cut $25 to $270 off his Jeeps, trucks and Jeepsters...
...conquered time, Trippe hopes to cut fares so that anybody with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will string along (they control fares on the North Atlantic through the International Air Transport Association). Such a cut would put it well under first-class steamer rates...
...Fugitive. What a clinker! I'd have lost money if they'd made me a present of it and paid the express...