Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some $500 million above the estimate; some other expenses, e.g., the cost of supporting farm prices, have gone up. Anticipated expenditures now stand at $64 billion. But revenue has gone up even more, now is expected to hit approximately the same figure. If the year's income for Social Security funds is included, the ledgers next June 30 are expected to show an actual cash surplus of some $2 billion...
Mere figures, no matter how startling, cannot convey an adequate idea of the seismic social, political, economic and geographical changes that have come over Florida's face. "It's real crazy," a Florida State coed said one day last week in Tallahassee. "Things are happening. I keep asking people about it and they don't know how to explain it, but they go home for a weekend and find a new factory where there used to be an empty lot, or maybe 200 houses where there was a golf course. The whole state's jumping...
...more militant days, when he was a social worker and M.P. for London's tough Limehouse district, Attlee had said that if he ever went to the House of Lords, it would be as "Lord Luv-a-Duk of Limehouse." Now he chose simple "Earl Attlee" as his title, without any geography...
Under this diffident lawyer's son turned social revolutionist, Great Britain, in its nature at home and its holdings abroad, was profoundly and permanently changed. In six years as postwar Premier, Attlee installed Britain's welfare state and nationalized its basic industries. He, more than any other man, dismantled the British Empire and reforged it as a Commonwealth of equals. It was his personal decisions that gave India, Burma and Ceylon their freedom, and created the nation of Pakistan. Said Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hamidul Huq Choudhury: "His name will be remembered as long as the independence...
...nationally in the next fifteen years there will be a large increase in the number of college students. Just how big the increase will be is, however, uncertain. College enrollments will be effected by a number of more or less unpredictable factors: business conditions, draft and man power policies, social and economic pressures, the cost of higher education, scholarship opportunities, the difficulty of securing admission to college, etc. . . The increase may be much more than is generally predicted, or it may be much less, depending. But even if the common estimates of a doubling of the number of college students...