Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BUDGET CUTS: The 85th Congress went on a budget spree...
...yeastless days of the 1957 budget spree, the House authorized only $3,116,833,000 for mutual security and insisted that the old year-to-year development programing be continued. The Senate, less obdurate, approved $3,617,333,000 for the entire program and upheld the President's three-year development-loan request. Last week's conference committee simply split the difference: it authorized a $3,366,000,000 program (still to come: the actual congressional appropriations) and settled for a two-year spread on development loans ($500 million the first year, $625 million the next). Commented...
Marty's long-smoldering hatred for his father came to an explosive boil two weeks ago when his old man took his car and $40 in grocery money, went off on a drinking spree with a woman. That night Marty and his mother caught up with the couple in a taproom, demanded the money. Marty's face turned white when his father snarled: "I don't have a cent left. We were over in Jersey and we had a good time." Telling his mother "I can't stand this any more," the boy got into...
...must agree to drop the proxy fight. It will sell 300,000 of its 692,000 Fairbanks shares to Fairbanks, Morse at $50 a share v. the $56 market price, a sharp cut below the $69 that Silberstein paid for some of the shares during his 15-month buying spree. To finance the purchase, which reduces Fairbanks, Morse outstanding shares to 1,072,000, the company will issue $15 million in convertible debentures, underwritten by Board Member Casey's investment banking house...
Later, Landau climaxed his spree by whipping Fisk in the low hurdles, with teammate Dave Rosenthal only a foot behind the Eli in third place...