Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even gaudier splash of red lies ahead for fiscal 1959 (TIME, March 24). Only three months ago, President Eisenhower, hopeful that the economy would soon perk up, predicted a skinny 1959 surplus of $500 million. But January's estimates are already obsolete. Anderson reported that the spending estimate has jumped $4 billion from programs already in the works, to a peacetime peak of $78 billion...
...Double Splash. After getting a rare permit from the Australian government to catch platypuses, which are rigidly protected, Fleay made 22 sorties from his home in West Burleigh, Queensland. Tramping along the streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened for the characteristic double splash they make when they hit the water. In likely places he set funnel-mouthed box traps, caught a few adult platypuses and lots of eels and catfish...
...most likely, a generous combination of both, the price will be a huge budget deficit. With the recession pushing federal spending up and revenue estimates down, a fiscal 1959 deficit of $5 billion or more already looms. Tax cuts or massive new spending could easily mean a red-ink splash of more than $10 billion, biggest since...
Payment for Services? Schwartz's last big splash of the week came when he was subpoenaed by the subcommittee to testify about some of the accusations he had been flinging about. He appeared tired, subdued, and, for the first time, civil. He was also an arresting witness...
...Brooklyn-born Gloria Davy, 25, made her first musical splash four years ago as the replacement for Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess. She toured in the role from San Francisco to Cairo, finally abandoned Bess to avoid being typed. She studied Aïda, sang the title role in the opera house at Nice but had never attempted it with a big-league company before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered...