Word: spend
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Johnson asked for a twelfth Cabinet-level agency: a Department of Transportation. The new department, he said, could bring "efficiency and frugality" to the 35 different U.S. agencies that spend $5 billion a year working on various facets of travel and transportation. A possible choice to head it: Alan S. Boyd, now Commerce Under Secretary for Transportation. Johnson reiterated his plea for home rule in the District of Columbia, a measure that was beaten in the House last year, promised to "streamline" the Executive branch and "restructure" civil service in the top grades. And he proposed a "commission...
...demand as an escort -witty, pretty, catty, and no problem to keep at arm's length. Rich dowagers often have a permanent traveling court of charming international types who exert influence over what pictures and houses their patronesses buy, what decorators they use, and where they spend which season...
Levin will deliver the Patten Lectures on Renaissance Literature at Indiana University in the fall. He will spend the spring semester as an Overseas Fellow at Cambridge...
...Cities. In the rush for Pacific routes, American's hand is strengthened by the fact that its 44 domestic cities channel 80% of all air traffic between the U.S. and the Pacific. If the CAB approves its application, the airline plans to spend at least $200 million on new equipment-a moderate investment considering that American values the transpacific route at $80 million-$100 million annually...
...Europe. Altogether they raised $297 million, or a quarter of all the world's bond money gathered outside the U.S. during the year; between bonds and bank borrowing, American companies accounted for the largest share of Europe's financial activity. In 1966 U.S. firms expect to spend about $1.5 billion on European expansion, and at least 30 companies intend to try the overseas-bond-financing technique. On the heels of Honeywell, Phillips Petroleum is planning a $25 million issue to finance overseas spending...