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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reciprocal trade (see Foreign Trade) dispatched to Congress, the only big hurdle was a Friday-morning breakfast speech to the Republican national committeemen. Taking the hurdle in stride, the President got off the kind of no-clichés-barred political pep talk GOPoliticians wish he had delivered the previous week in Chicago, where he went through a nationally televised twelve minutes without once directly calling for a Republican Congress this fall. "We all know that the political prophets have already [figured] the odds the Republicans are up against. But these calculations overlook the decisive element. What counts...
...showings as Fairchild, it was the American business envoys from the garment industry. Reason: every morning at 8 a messenger delivered to their hotel rooms a big red envelope stuffed with the cables Fairchild and his crew of seven reporters had filed to Women's Wear Daily the previous evening. Said Manufacturer Joseph Frumkes of Monarch Garment Corp.: "Even when I'm in Paris, I have to read Women's Wear to find out what's going on here...
Major trouble with previous tests in which some medical researchers thought they detected advantages in buffering the aspirin with antacids, said New York Medical College's Dr. Robert C. Batterman, was that they relied on patients' faulty memories. To rule out this and other sources of error. Dr. Batterman did "double blind" tests: identical-looking tablets, one plain, one buffered, were used with only a code letter for labeling. Neither the patients nor the doctors and nurses knew which was which until after the results were tabulated. The results showed that, buffer or no buffer, there...
...dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...
Only 45 Britons last year had taxable incomes of more than ?100,000 ($280,000), but that was five more than in the previous fiscal year of 1954-55. There were similar modest rises in other brackets; e.g., those with incomes of $16,800 or more after taxes rose from 200 to 600. But Britain was not as poor as the Treasury figures annually make it sound. "Taxable" income is far from the only income received by well-heeled Britons. All capital gains, whether they come from securities, real-estate deals or winnings on the horses, are taxexempt...