Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under his successor, Philosopher J. Seelye Bixler, Johnson went right on campaigning. One day he appeared on the campus to give $96,000 to the cause-almost all the money he had earned as president ("I've made some prudent investments"). He made scores of speeches, sent out reams of personal letters. Once again the money began to flow in. All told, Colby raised...
...Prudent Way. More & more states are discovering that one answer, where traffic is heavy enough, is to build roads that pay for themselves. Indiana and Illinois have tentatively outlined projects to extend the eastern super-highway route to Chicago; New York is building a 535-mile Manhattan-to-Buffalo throughway; Florida has plans for a 350-mile Jackson-ville-to-Miami speed road. Along with everything else, highway costs have been rising: Ohio's Turnpike will cost $1,300,000 per mile v. a mere $476,000 per mile for Pennsylvania's original mileage. Tolls are rising...
Josef Stalin is "too prudent" to launch a war against the West, Alan G. Kirk, Jr., former ambassador to Russia, said in an interview Friday...
...Soviet dictator would be walling to resort to war to accomplish his expansionist ends, Kirk alluded to Stalin's many outstanding accomplishments and said that he has a "strong sense of history." Although he is under pressure from ambitions military advisors and theorists. "I think he's too prudent for that." Kirk stated. "Besides, he's 72, and even for a Georgian, that...
...Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter of oil). Did the War Office fear a war? Not at all, said a spokesman-just being vigilant and prudent in order to stay calm...