Word: totally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine Presidents who preserved perfect veto records throughout their terms handed down a total of only 86 vetoes: Washington (2), Madison (7), Monroe (1), Jackson (12), Polk (3), Buchanan (7), Lincoln (6), McKinley (42), Harding...
...Salem Real Estate Man Harold Schmidt-father of eleven-it was a bonanza. His son Denny, 21, is a Portland senior; Son Keith, 22, and Daughters Victoria Anne, 20, and Margarite May, 18, are entering freshmen. The new plan not only halves their total tuition to $1,320; the four are also paying it themselves by working at outside jobs and starting their own boardinghouse for six Portland coeds...
...Queen Charlotte Ball: one appearance in lights and white, followed by oblivion." The association blamed the industry's decline on "unparalleled government muddle, management inefficiency, and a seemingly complete disregard for Britain's welfare." One of the union's biggest worries: this major British industry (total employment: 239,800) is laying off workers at the rate of 800 a month...
...Society National Bank. "Business has to get money for inventory and capital spending by borrowing. But banks are pretty well loaned up." Inventory buying has already begun to level off. In 1959's first half, manufacturers boosted inventories by a near-record $2.9 billion, raised the total to $52.1 billion, fast approaching the alltime high of $54.2 billion in mid-1957. But in July, inventories rose by only $100 million. The steel strike is another major factor in slowing inventory buying. "Steel is having its recession right now," explains a steel company economist. "Deferred demand will mean good...
...plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new German stockholders limited to annual incomes of $3,800 or less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen works, a steel and iron-ore company, a shipbuilding company and an aluminum company. Finding buyers is no problem...