Word: barreling
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Twenty miles northwest of Augusta in hilly farm country, Mount Vernon is too poor to be a traditionally quaint New England town. At the start of the century, it had a flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where...
Unrealistic Objectives. Such a switch might appease many congressional critics of the present program, including Senators William Fulbright and Edmund Muskie, as well as George Aiken, who recently damned the existing scheme as "a diplomatic pork barrel." It would also help to further lower the U.S. profile in international affairs, as Nixon wants to do. Military aid would be split off entirely from economic and technical assistance, thus ending a longstanding confusion. The U.S. would set up an international development bank, which would have $4 billion in capital and borrowing authority, and a technical-aid institute initially authorized...
...owns $25.630.751 in stocks-has been developing a rich oil field in the Cabinda area of Angoia. As part of its contract for use of the field, Gulf has agreed to pay the Portuguese government 30 per cent of all its Cabinda profits, plus a set royalty on each barrel of oil produced there...
...afternoon. Adjudant-Chef Robert Garros, 34, stopped his Jeep and looked back. A long funnel of dust stretched out behind his platoon's four battered, dun-colored weapons carriers. His 35 legionnaires were tired and filthy, their faces caked with white dust. After a moment, Garros, a muscular barrel of a man with 14 long years of tough service in the legion, raised his arm to signal the advance. With the Jeep in the lead, the four weapons carriers rumbled ahead side by side and raced over deep elephant tracks into a village of conical straw huts...
...totally different bargaining position from any the down-Easters had ever had before. "We have the oil industry over one of its own barrels," cracked House Majority Leader Har rison L. Richardson. As a result, a bipartisan legislative committee, helped by Governor Curtis' staff, confidently wrote tough new bills to control the future industrial development of Maine. One measure provides for a $4,000,000 fund to finance the cleanup of any oil spills. The companies will have to pay a half-cent levy on every barrel of oil they move into or out of Maine-a prospect that...