Word: spending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sherman Douglas, pretty, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had arrived at a universal truth as she flew into New York with her grandmother to spend the Christmas holidays in the U.S. Asked if she preferred Englishmen to American men, she said thoughtfully: "Men are men, no matter where they...
Last year, campaign posters, balloons, and neon signs marked up the Union lobby to such an extent that the University had to spend $1,000 on redecorating...
...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
...airport for the warm breezes and whispering palms of Key West. There he would have to do some work-on the State of the Union message, on the budget, on finding a replacement for retiring Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David Lilienthal (see The Administration). But Harry Truman planned to spend as much of his three weeks as he could just loafing...
...February the show will move from Washington to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, spend two months there and two months each in Chicago's Art Institute and San Francisco's De Young Museum before its return to Vienna...