Word: clearer
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Presenting its annual resumé, the Department of Agriculture last week had some startling figures that might put all the worryabout fluctuating farm prices and immediate income in clearer perspective. The U.S. farmer is a rich man. Between Jan. 1, 1956 and Jan. 1, 1957, total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some...
...Marion Folsom tried to revive interest by calling a special press conference to report the President was still behind the bill. Then he went off to the White House to discover that the President was not about to issue any ringing endorsements. Next day Ike's position became clearer. Leaving a White House conference, House Minority Leader Joe Martin reported the President "not entirely satisfied" with the compromise. But, said Martin: "I think that in all probability the Administration will accept it as a starter if passed by Congress...
Khrushchev made his point clearer: the accused had had a hand in the famous "Leningrad Case." This was a conspiracy that had cost the life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary, Secret Police Boss Viktor Abakumov and three subordinates were executed in December 1954 for their role in it. Said Khrushchev menacingly last week: "Malenkov, who was one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, simply was afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." If Malenkov...
...comprising the Council of Europe and any other country "belonging to Western civilization" to build a pavilion at Delphi. Purpose of the pavilions: to provide a place for meditation and study by political leaders or delegates to international conferences. They would not miss the oracle-but they might the clearer certainties of the world it ordered...
...Crimson lineup is, at this early date, still indefinite, but Barnaby hopes to have a much clearer picture of the team rankings when the squad returns from the South at the end of the vacation...