Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation where no alibis, however valid, suffice. Of course there was too much publicity; we always talk too much...
...pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil-bank program (a good part of that saving might be offset by increased subsidies). Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, while avoiding talk of tax increases, plugged for renewal of the 52% corporation tax rate...
...Onetime Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going...
While most European nations complain that their economies will not support greater military expenditures and talk of reductions, the most significant economic fact about Western Europe is the explosive postwar expansion of its industrial output. By 1956 industrial production of NATO's Western European members showed the following increases over prewar (1937-38) levels...
Canada's new Conservative government, carried into office last summer in a razor's-edge upset victory, moved last week to make good on the brave campaign talk of a $500 million tax cut. In a modest beginning, the Tories proclaimed personal income-tax reductions (effective Jan. 1) amounting to $146 million a year, sprinkled mainly in the lower income brackets...