Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must go on to assure ample credit at fair rates to the farmer who has to borrow money. We must protect REA co-ops by safeguarding and using the preference clause and by assuring them adequate funds for transmission, generation and distribution. We must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...themselves. The result was a bonanza of tax-free riches. This delighted the Buddhist and Shinto priests but filled Kyoto's Mayor Gizo Takayama, a Congregationalist, with ill-concealed envy. To Mayor Takayama, whose father founded the first Y.M.C.A. in the city, the sightseers' gold was an asset that should be shared by the temples with the city as a whole. To help pay off his city's deficit (1,800,000,000 yen) and to construct a vast urban convention hall, the mayor proposed a 5-to 10-yen tax on each temple admission...
...primary importance, he says, is that the U.S. reorient its thinking and adopt a point of view implementing Japan as an ideological asset. "The problems are delicate and will require time, but they can be solved if the right objectives are sought...
...appeal, he is being given equal, if hyphenated, billing on Stevenson-Kefauver campaign posters, and party strategists plan to let him have more campaign money than any previous vice-presidential candidate. It should be money well spent. Said a correspondent traveling with Kefauver: "He's the single strongest asset Stevenson...
...Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...