Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inauguration, the country's two top newspapers, El Comercio and La Prensa, both rapped him hard for breaking the promise. His first yearly budget had just emerged from Congress, at $254.6 million, the fattest in the nation's history and nearly 25% bigger than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier Odría was often accused of lavishing the taxpayers' soles on the armed forces just to keep the brass contented, but Old (67) Civilian Prado outdid him. Prado upped...
CRACKPOTS ON "BOMB" SPREE...
...arrest abruptly halted Wagner's lavish cross-country spree, in which he used up all but $4,575 of the original sum. Among other things, Wagner was reported to have spent more than $1800 on call girls during the last five days of his freedom...
...government. He bolstered his own position by placing inexperienced Army officers in high government posts instead of financial and commercial experts. Scandals were frequent, and Bogota rang with stories of corruption in high places. Nevertheless, coffee prices were at a record high, the country was enjoying an unprecedented buying spree, and prosperous coffee growers and textile merchants agreed that the Rojas government was "better than before...
...physical culture, exercises, or work on the "rock pile"-carting bricks or laying walks. Visitors are barred, and Lowney once heaved bricks at a trio of them. Liquor and women are also banned ("I'd kill one of my younger boys who got married") except for an occasional spree in Terre Haute. 16 miles over to the east. Lights...