Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abundant spring rainfall brought lush crop prospects, notably in the long-parched Great Plains, and the department's outgo estimate mushroomed to $6 billion-more than twice the combined outlays of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor departments. In a rational world, good crop weather ought to count as a national blessing, but under the archaic, surplus-spawning price-support laws, it only serves to boost the already scandalous cost of subsidized farming by another billion dollars...
Having tolerated a little bit of democracy, Portugal's quiet strongman, Premier António de Oliveira Salazar, 69, decided that perhaps it was a dangerous thing. The crowds that came out to see the opposition candidate, Air Force General Humberto Delgado (who in the official count got 23% of the vote last month) had obviously indicated unrest after 26 years of Salazarism. Salazar described himself as "a man always prepared to quit, I will not say without disappointments but without disillusions...
...Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement, Fanfani presumably could count on a precarious majority of two. But the left-of-center Republicans and the right-wing Monarchists have indicated that they will abstain on the initial vote of confidence in order to assure Fanfani's investiture...
...Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will probably head a government that talks to the left in public but runs down the political middle...
...main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed the Louvre 56 impressionist paintings (including Degas' Foyer de la Danse, Manet's The Fifer), they were accepted unanimously by the Curators' Committee...