Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past five months of union have not achieved the degree of production we had hoped for. I did not acquaint myself with the budget of the Syrian region before proclaiming unity. It seems there was a deficit in Syria's budget. Syria's reserve had all been spent. The task was very hard and complicated, but I hope we shall recover...
...which it raised $560 million (virtually all from the March of Dimes), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced last week a change of name and a raising of its sights against far commoner ills than polio. Henceforth to be called simply the National Foundation, the aggressive organization that spent $34 million on the research that produced (among other gains) the Salk vaccine * will turn its attention to two other cripplers: the rheumatic diseases and defects present in children at birth...
...million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine and develop no immunity, there is a widening pool of vaccinated subjects who may still get paralytic polio. But why do these people not respond? Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk has spent most of the summer studying non-responders. Last week all he would say was: "The essential point is that the proportion of individuals who do not respond is influenced by vaccine potency." Last summer there was considerable evidence (TIME, July 15, 1957) that some of the vaccine, whose manufacture...
...zaibatsu grow bigger almost by the week. Fortnight ago Mitsui Bank President Kiichiro Sato, 65, a nimble-witted financial expert who has spent his entire life working for the Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...
...curtain-raiser is Hands Across the Sea, a plotless bit of mayhem in which the lady of the house doesn't want to admit that she can't identify all her drawing-room callers. Too much time is spent talking on the telephone, and the device of having two or three people talk at once is vastly overworked. It is a three-minute joke extended to thirty...