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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower-and middle-income groups, i.e., those groups which tend to spend almost all their income. Such a tax cut would be fed into the economy almost immediately. It would stimulate demand for goods and services, afford the best hope for stopping the current economic recession, and help to start an economic upturn. Public works are too slow. And even if taken off the shelf quickly, and even if built in the right localities, public works generally do not directly employ those who have lost industrial jobs...
Diefenbaker's crowd-compelling, headline-snaring campaign has seemingly given his Tories a running start to victory. The latest precampaign Gallup poll rated them the favorites of 50% of the voters who had made up their minds, v. 35% for the Liberals, 15% for the two minor parties...
...From the start, Hopital Trousseau "looked sinister"; the head nurse seemed like a heartless virago. Peggy was not allowed her "pretty, rose nightdress," instead got "a veritable sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days...
...That Lady I Saw You With? (by Norman Krasna) concerns a Columbia chemistry professor whose wife catches him kissing a girl student and at once starts packing for Reno. A would-be helpful pal of the culprit cooks up the explanation that the kiss was part of the professor's job as an FBI man. This quickly makes matters worse, for though the wife is mollified, the FBI gets wind of the story. Wheels start to turn, wires begin to cross, and the plot not only thickens but broadens and lengthens as well...
...union figured it could hold out a long time. It has a $33 million strike war chest, which, as Columnist Murray Kempton quipped, "is rather like the Chase Manhattan Bank going on strike." But management was hemmed in. Unless settlement came soon, the shops would be unable to start their summer-dress deliveries as planned on April i. and their fall showings would be late. Said Adolph Klein, spokesman for 32 high-priced fashion houses: "We just don't know if there will be a summer line if the strike lasts another week...