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...only temporary. Besides, there wouldn't be any deficit spending if the Republican Congress had not cut income taxes. His overall objective was steadily to expand the economy to absorb the million and a half young people who come into it annually and such expansion would in itself wipe out the deficit by increasing national income. This cannot be done without the measures outlined in the Fair Deal...
...made the nation's own shoreline for the first time in 135 years a perilous frontier. Even if both Russia and the U.S. began working on the H-bomb simultaneously, Russia would have a lead. It would have a lead because in the kind of war that might wipe out entire cities and whole armies at one surprise stroke, the U.S. would strike only if struck first. The element of surprise would always be Russia's monopoly. The tempting nakedness of America's great cities and the vulnerable concentration of her industrial plants also made...
...from power. But last week gutty Mr. Gutt, now head of the International Monetary Fund, had his reward. The Fund announced that Belgium had paid in full the $33 million loan borrowed two years ago to build up its dollar reserves. It thus became the first European nation to wipe out its debt to the Fund.* Said one Fund official: "If it weren't for Gutt, Belgium would not be able to repay...
...vice versa. In some states women might not handle baggage, mix strong drinks in public places, work in blast furnaces, bowling alleys or shoeshine parlors. It was not a question of whether they wanted to do these things; they just resented the implication of inferiority. The proposed amendment would wipe out all such strictures at one stroke...
...century,* the weather on New Year's Day struck just the right note. "The snow-flakes," said the admiring Times, "were of that fine, crisp quality that lie and wear well." The snow, the prosperity of the land and the mood of the hour seemed to wipe out the black misery of preceding centuries. The worst was over; man was out of the woods...