Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigating them. His work in New York might call for a night at the opera, followed by a Greenwich Village jam session. It includes interviews with a composer about forthcoming compositions, listening to the new records and spotting the new in music and the great in musical performances. Last summer he took a trip to the music festivals at Amsterdam and Salzburg...
...deficit, Truman said, could be blamed on the summer slump, which had decreased tax receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...Magic of Action. In Paris for three days, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West German Republic and the Saar territory to the Council as an "associate member." But on almost every other question the ministers passed the buck to U.N., to OEEC and other organizations...
...Last summer, Miss Brucher was in the race for a seat as the Bonn Parliament. Since 1947 when the Free Democrats invited her to run successfully for the Munich City Council she has told teachers, students and ward committees that there should be more young blood in Germany's infault government...
...spite of all the protests last year about the College's food situation, very little has been changed. There have been no major revisions in the dining hall setup. The poorly prepared food remains to plague student stomachs. And although there were a few innovations in equipment this summer, as official sentiment stands now, large-scale reforms are not even being considered...