Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Iowa-born Henry Wallace: "My greatest fear is that farmers themselves may destroy the farm legislative machinery by asking it to do work for which it was never designed. It would be a great disaster if the ever-normal granary were converted into an abnormal granary by loans completely...
Churning Disaster. All of the plans under consideration have their shortcomings, and all of them would milk the U.S. Treasury to some degree. But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his staff know that they will have to choose some way of dumping the surplus within the next few...
"Too old, too ailing, too tired for the job . . . The blunt truth is that Churchill's continued rule in 10 Downing Street has become a disaster to his party and to the country," shrilled London's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,000,000). As if to make a...
Pipe-smoking President-Premier Mohammed Naguib, twinkling good will, likes to tour Egypt's hinterland in his favorite role: father of the people. Last week, when fire devastated the Nile village of Ibyar and razed 102 houses, he set forth on a special train to reassure the hundreds of...
slight degree" since writing in the Manchester Guardian Weekly that the U.S. is in for a major slump, beginning this year (TIME, Jan. 11). However, Clark still insisted that there were more danger signals than there were for the minor 1949 setback, and that only a cut in taxes or...