Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Defense Secretary McElroy led a Pentagon task force to the President's golf retreat at Augusta to report on the possibilities of wringing water out of the defense budget. After the meeting McElroy told newsmen that it will be "pretty rough'' to keep 1960 spending at the fiscal-1959 level. But when asked whether 1960's total would be $2 billion higher than 1959's, he recoiled: "Oh, no." How about $1 billion higher? "I just don't know," said McElroy. His final word before boarding his plane back to Washington: "economy...
...state's sunny joys at Midwestern county fairs to entice thousands more to join the 3,500,000 already in sunny California. But the wildest enthusiasts underguessed the migrations to come. The chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems-roads, water shortages, etc. -to be multiplied by still more millions of newcomers. In pride and awe, the chamber's California Population Study Committee reported last week on the migrant-swelled statistics (present est. pop. 14,400,000), again upped its forecasts of the near future...
...Begins to eat eggs, meat and butter and wash with hot water...
Sunday afternoons Guadalajarans like to gaze through the windows of a two-bedroom model home on Independence Highway. A sign over the house tells why: "12,000 pesos [$960] total cost! Ten years to pay! Complete with life insurance and water...
CHEAP NUCLEAR POWER is goal of 54 utilities that propose to build new type, 40,000 kw. reactor outside Philadelphia. It would be cooled by helium; method may well prove more economical than usual water cooling...