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...need, it was new shackles. The country's third five year plan, now in its 47th month has failed so badly that food output has not kept pace with population growth Unemployment is soaring, and per-capita income has failed to gain for three years. To bolster the economy, India is wooing private foreign capital, but this effort, too, has run afoul of high taxes India requires foreign investors to have a local partner; usually, the Indian finds he cannot raise his share of the money...
With the success of 1963 to bolster my confidence, I again attempted to form a group to fly to St. Louis during the recent Christmas vacation. TWA confirmed that the rate was still $105 per person. In spite of the fact that the airlines had not changed their fares, the HSA this year raised their fare to $115 per person, making a gross profit of $10 per person. With the smallest group allowable this would mean a profit of $250 and I feel sure that the HSA with its massive advertising campaign secured more than the 35 people...
...Miss Schubert said, "It matters little whether we 'Bolster the Buttonwood,' 'Preserve the Planes,' or 'Save the Sycamores' so long as the trees of Platanus along Memorial Drive are protected...
Prime Minister Menzies' government has tried to shape up defenses. Standing by its Commonwealth and SEATO commitments, Australia reinforced its expeditionary force in Malaysia, increased the number of Australian military advisers in South Viet Nam to 60. To bolster home defenses, the government ordered 100 supersonic Mirage jets from France and 24 TFX (now known as the F-111A) fighter-bombers from the U.S., plus three U.S.-made missile-firing destroyers and four British Oberon submarines. Last week Menzies carried the beef-up further, announced the reinstatement of the draft, which had been dropped...
United States troops were first sent to Vietnam in 1961 to bolster the crumbling regime of Ngo Dinh Diem and to serve as advisors in the war against the Viet Cong. Since then American commitment in South Vietnam has steadily increased...