Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowded press conference, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric announced that the U.S. will provide about $500 million to pay for slightly more than half the costs of 20 million community shelters in schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. States and the communities themselves must pick up the rest of the tab for the program, which should be completed by mid-1963. To qualify for federal funds, each shelter must be able to accommodate at least 50 people. All told, the Kennedy Administration hopes to help furnish at least a measure of fallout protection for some 70 million citizens...
...parts firm of F. L. Jacobs & Co., who was sent to federal penitentiary two years ago for stock fraud. The friendship was close enough, so the story went, that when McCormick ran up a sizable gambling debt during a 1956 trip to Havana, he let Guterma pick up the tab...
...which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies as kielbasa (sausage) and sweet-and-sour sauerkraut. Toward midnight, as per Polish custom. Barbara Hoffa finally removed her veil and departed on her honeymoon, leaving Jimmy with only the $27,000 tab...
...happy; it was almost like a successful political rally. Applause greeted the assertion that "TV is an advertising medium disguised as entertainment." After this great feat of perception, Kazan revealed that ticket prices are too high on Broadway. "When I took my family to the theatre last week, the tab for the five of us was fifty dollars," he said, "and I resented it like Hell." (Scattered laughter and several nods of sympathy...
Insured Success. India's planners are successful in part because private enterprise exceeds what is expected of it. Private enterprise still accounts for 90% of India's gross national product, and will almost surely be able to pick up a larger share of the plan's tab than the. 40% the planners expect. Another cushion is the fact that the government has never been able to spend quite all the funds earmarked for previous plans. Best insurance of all is the pledged determination of two of India's biggest foreign creditors, Britain...