Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
...friend of economic growth, not its enemy. What counts, he holds, is "sustainable growth" (a favorite Anderson phrase), which requires capital investment out of savings. "A high rate of saving," he argues, "is indispensable in achieving a high rate of economic growth." And since inflation is the enemy of thrift, it is in the long run the enemy of economic growth...
...with three purposes in mind: to supervise established enterprises and promote new business ventures for the benefit of students in need of financial aid; to provide experience in the practical management of business affairs; and "to foster, encourage and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...
...veto rattled Democrats in both halls of Congress. Senate Leader Johnson attacked "vetoes and vetoes and vetoes," chided Ike for requiring Congress to pass his proposals "without crossing a 't' or dotting an 'i.' " But the odds were high that Eisenhower, riding the tide of thrift, would eventually get what Johnson knew the White House wanted: a housing law that renews the nearly exhausted FHA mortgage-insurance authority, extends home-improvement and military-housing loan insurance programs and costs about the $1.6 billion the President asked in the first place...
...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...