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...With wages and employment at record levels, other income sources joined to swell U.S. buying power. Social Security was a growing factor. National benefits paid to 10 million people added up to about $6 billion annually...
Several years ago Everett House residents livened its sign-ins by using a colored pencil system to indicate the calibre of their dates. A yellow sign-in signified "intellectual conver-sation," green meant "walk and eat," blue indicated "movie and dancing," and red "a perfectly swell time." A purple signature meant "all this and Heaven...
...That's Swell!" Within minutes President Eisenhower was flying back to the White House (Mamie returned by car later in the day). There, as he had during most of the closing week of the campaign, he turned his attention away from politics and toward the tense international scene...
...television set so they could watch the early returns. When Presidential News Secretary James Hagerty brought in press reports that the President had swept Connecticut and that Republican U.S. Senator Prescott Bush was reelected, Ike's reaction was a broad smile and an exultant "That's swell...
CHEMICAL EXPANSION will hit record $853 million in second half of 1956, swell year's production to $1.5 billion, or 48% more than 1955. Output capacity of polyethylene plastic alone will jump next year to 900 million Ibs. annually from present 600 million...