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...milking machine will save up to 30 man-hours per cow in a year's time...
...audience of 2,800 Texans in the Amarillo Public Auditorium that he would act fast. "I was born and raised . . . almost at the end of the Chisholm Trail," he said. "It is not strange that I have hurried here . . . We are not going to wait until the last cow has starved to death until something is done. Something is going to be done now." The President assured his hearers that he would act promptly on emergency recommendations of Agriculture Secretary Benson and the governors. As he climbed back into his plane, the President had a word of regret for Texas...
Organizer Ulbricht, it seemed, had saddled the cow. The more Moscow milked it, the more he tightened the cinch belts. There was a Two Year Plan, then a Five Year Plan. Steel production went up 500,000 tons above the prewar average for Eastern Junker Germany (to about 1,700,000 tons a year). Electric power output climbed 50% in two years. New hard-coal fields were opened, chemicals output went UP 30% and East Germany seemed on the way to becoming the most important industrial area in Europe after the Ruhr...
...squeeze was too much. What cream the cow produced went to Russia and the satellites, but nothing came back in return. The agricultural program broke down, and this spring a land historically known for surpluses fell short 600,000 tons of bread grain, 100,000 tons of sugar and 125,000 tons of the indispensable potato. Restaurants took to serving boiled potatoes only to customers who traded in an equal quantity of raw ones...
...symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved a "jump into the red-sea of mud," where "I have had a horrible time...