Word: sunnier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunnier Future. Despite the emergent consensus, prolonged hearings, intense lobbying and impassioned arguments lie ahead for the Administration's tax program. Though they advocate tax reduction in principle, conservatives in both branches of Congress are wary of cutting taxes at a time when the Federal Government is already deep in the red. A deficit of about $8 billion is estimated for the current fiscal year. Another massive deficit lies ahead in fiscal 1964, even without a tax cut. Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, recently said that "sharp reductions in federal expenditures should precede...
...Baker has feuded at one time or another with virtually every major figure in U.S. commercial aviation. But in the stormy process, he has built National from a 142-mile mail run into the nation's seventh biggest air carrier. Last week, with National's skies sunnier than ever before-the company's first-quarter earnings this year were almost $3,000,000, v. a $1,400,000 deficit a year ago-hardhitting Ted Baker abruptly sold out to a man with whom he has little in common save a love of aviation...
Writing in a sunnier era, Woodrow Wilson once declared that the most important function of a Congressional committee is to influence public opinion. Wilson, of course, was making the dangerous assumption that men act in good faith. The past decade has shown how easy it is to turn an investigating committee into a vigilante squad, and a very recent case in point is the persecution of Linus Pauling by Senators Eastland and Dodd...