Word: buying
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...FARMERS. Since half of all U.S. poverty exists in rural areas, up to 45,000 farm families would get grants to buy stock or equipment to raise their income to minimum living levels. The idea is to keep farmers from joining the surplus of unskilled labor in the cities. Argues Shriver: "It is cheaper for the taxpayers to pay once to buy a low-income farm family a cow than to pay for milk for the children of that family day after day in the city." A more controversial provision would set up nonprofit corporations to buy up large tracts...
...agent in France, posing as a gangland dope racketeer, arranged a buy from an international narcotics ring. French police closed in just as a batch of heroin was delivered to the agent. The deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin...
...captives led to caches of narcotics at railroad stations in Poughkeepsie and Albany, N.Y., and Philadelphia. >- In April 1963, a narcotics agent in Turkey wormed his way into the confidence of a band of international traffickers headed by the former mayor of a Turkish city. The agent arranged to buy 18 kg. of morphine base. The ex-mayor made the delivery-accompanied by 20 Turks armed to the teeth. When the agent and Turkish police got the drop on the crooks, they tried to shoot their way out. After a furious gun battle, six men, including the ex-mayor, were...
...foreign aid instead of allowing its opponents to monopolize the debate. Johnson's public questioning of the soundness of AID's administrative structure, his amputation of the Alliance for Progress from AID's control, and his demand for less aid to fewer countries are all attempts to buy off the Congressional opposition. The last suggestion is even borrowed directly from the most vociferous of the opposition last year, who spent a good part of the summer trying to agree on the number of countries receiving U. S. foreign...
...price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...