Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnesses last week, to seek legislation to end the charity rackets. Worried administrators of such legitimate charities as the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the various Community Chests pointed out that their fund-raising and administrative costs rarely exceed 12%. There was widespread fear that worthy causes would suffer financial loss in the exposure of the rackets...
...Government, and a smaller cash deficit next year.) Furthermore, unlike most taxes, those who will pay for the boost are solidly for it. Labor and employers, most of whose pension plans are tied to social-security payments, fear that unless social-security income is stepped up. benefits will suffer. While the social-security system is still young, the Government is piling up an annual surplus of income over benefit payments ($1.4 billion last year alone), and has built up a trust fund of $18 billion. But by 1957, at the present rate of contributions, the fund will be paying...
...Dictator Trujillo, a man of the world, really take umbrage at Rubi's conduct? A likelier explanation might be that Trujillo was simply reminding Rubi that the Benefactor is still the one & only boss. Any public official under Trujillo may suffer an occasional, penitential spell of unemployment; Rubi's turn has obviously come. For a while, he will have to get along without the magic diplomatic passport, will have to let the customs officers of New York, Cherbourg and other way stations muss his socks and shirts. Then, his cafe-society pals confidently believe, he will be restored...
...yourself" fad that has gripped U.S. homeowners is leaving a good many of them in need of fixing. The American Mutual Liability Insurance Co. announced that some 630,000 people suffer disabling injuries every year while engaged in home repair work...
...Zabaleta is too well established to suffer from the silence of the Manhattan press. Basque-born (he now makes his home in Puerto Rico) Zabaleta has been a student of the harp since seven, a recitalist since 22. After early successes in Europe, he turned to Latin America, and has made more than 1,000 appearances there, but only after an interval of bad luck: he had barely started when he caught a fungus infection in his fingers. For four years he was limited to teaching (in the Caracas conservatory). But "I do not have the teacher's mentality...