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...PLAN for highways has been approved by President Eisenhower. Since congressional Democrats are against financing a $25 billion, ten-year road plan by floating revenue bonds, the President has agreed to go along with ideas of financing the highways by increased user taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, tires, etc. Possible federal tax increase: $1 billion annually...
...Kkuko Toguri d'Aquino, more infamous as Tokyo Rose, whose seductive broadcasts in World War II aimed at demoralizing Allied forces in the Pacific but actually entertained them, wound up her ten-year treason stretch (with time off for rosy behavior) at the Federal women's pen in Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps...
...with less than $250,000 assets made only a 1? profit per $1 of sales in the first half of 1955 v. 7.2? per $1 of sales for big companies. Furthermore, says the committee, business failures are now up to 42 per 10,000 firms, 68% more than the ten-year postwar average, with the majority of them among small businesses...
...billion into farmers' pockets by 1957.) He wanted Congress to look into "an experimental program of flood damage indemnities." He hoped to divert federal funds to help depressed areas, which he called "pockets of chronic unemployment." High on his list was the plan-stalled through 1955-for a ten-year, $25 billion program of interstate highway construction with "adequate" arrangements for financing...
...forward the achievement of our own objectives rather than to meet each shift and change on the Communist front." He, therefore, proposed a new approach to foreign economic aid, requesting Congress to grant him "limited authority to make longer-term commitments." Likeliest outline of the new presidential idea: a ten-year program, ultimately totaling $1 billion, designed to provide about $100 million a year for specific foreign projects, e.g., Egypt's Aswan Dam, approved by U.S. diplomats and engineers...