Word: relief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make federal spending match federal income, it was hardly surprising that Treasury Secretary David Kennedy asked the Senate to cut in half the $2.4-billion-a-year revenue loss foreseen in the House measure. Despite the rebellious mood of the nation's taxpayers, Secretary Kennedy recommended somewhat less relief for low-and middle-income individuals and families. In the most unexpected move of all, he asked that corporate income tax rates be reduced by 2 percentage points rather than increased or held at the current 52.8%. Nor would Kennedy move nearly so far as the House did in closing...
Dona Flor's friends can scarcely contain their vicarious relief. But Dona Flor is wretched. Her Vadinho was a tender, tireless, imaginative lover...
Survivors managed as best they could, sleeping in automobiles or gutted buildings, drinking warm beer when water was not available. Refugee centers were packed, with victims eating in emergency kitchens. The Red Cross and Salvation Army provided some relief, and the Federal Government sent in 800,000 pounds of food...
Kwashiorlcor Again. Cut off from all supplies except by air, Biafra needs 500 tons of food by air each day to supplement its crops. Since the recent downing of a Red Cross food plane by Nigerian MIGs (see color opposite), relief planes paid for by Catholic and Protestant charities have been able to bring in less than 100 tons weekly. As a result, an often-fatal protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor has broken out again, mostly among children...
...into stygian blackness. Last month disaster loomed again when the million-kilowatt generator at Con Ed's Ravenswood plant short-circuited. Since two smaller generators were temporarily out of order, New York suffered a "brownout" that dimmed lights and made air conditioners wheeze. Last week Luce sighed with relief when "Big Allis" (named for the Allis-Chalmers generator) came back on the line. But relief can only be temporary for Con Ed. It must currently generate 7,350,000 kw. at peak load, and 10.9 million within a decade. Even when it buys power from other utilities...