Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exactly how the Treasury expects to achieve its goal is a mystery. Fiscal Assistant Secretary William T. Heffelfinger, manager of the public debt, has flatly refused to release the all-important estimates of Treasury income v. outgo. Yet it is no secret that there will be one crisis after another until March 15, when heavy corporate tax payments start pouring in. From October through February, Treasury income is at its lowest point, while expenditures continue at their high level. In fiscal 1957, for example, the U.S. Government collected $24.4 billion from October through February, but spent $29.2 billion. Realizing...
ARABIAN OIL MONOPOLY, held by U.S.-owned companies, will be broken if Japan's new Arabian Oil Co. signs pending contract, upsetting the traditional 50-50 profit split. Terms of deal are still secret, but oilmen in U.S. and Tokyo say that Japanese company will pay about $2,000,000 a year to seek oil off shore of Saudi Arabia's half of Neutral Zone, will give 56% of profits and several other benefits to Saudi Arabia...
Born. To Steve Allen, 35, owl-eyed TV funnyman; and Jayne Meadows, 35, red-haired TV paneleer (I've Got a Secret): their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Christopher. Weight...
...furthermore remains to be proven that, since most secrets are shared by several hundred people, anything really important can be kept secret, human nature being what...
Part of the difficulty lies in America's propensity to believe that each super-weapon has somewhere a safely guarded and esoteric "secret." This tendency reached its extreme when recently a Congressman suggested that the Russians had stolen the "idea" of a space satellite from...