Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cow, A House. Sending his right-hand man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, to mend badly neglected and sagging fences in the northern Syrian province, Nasser took personal charge of his lagging Egyptian land-reclamation program and recently handed title to 350 new smallholders at Edku in the Nile delta. At Port Said last month, he proclaimed that his first $870 million, five-year industrialization plan was creating 800,000 new jobs, and that his $1.3 billion rural-development program would "build a house for every farmer, give every farmer a cow, and . . . change our society...
...Milk the Cow. Higher fares do not make the entire answer to the railroads' problems. The very nature of the commuter business-running at a peak for only four hours daily-means that roads must keep expensive equipment and labor idle for most of the day. "You couldn't profitably run a shoe factory or a bean cannery on such a schedule." says the Long Island's president, Thomas Goodfellow...
...million bridge over the Harlem River in such a way that a new highway could pass under it, then upped taxes on the bridge from $70,000 to $500,000 a year. Says the Central's solicitor, Robert D. Brooks: "Everyone wants to milk the cow, but no one wants to feed...