Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Kennedy Administration's foreign policy is less ambitious than liberation, more positive than containment. Walt Whitman Rostow, head of the State Department's policy planning board, sums it up like this: "We seek to build a community of independent nations, their governments increasingly responsive to the consent...
Bugs in the Treasury. In his long years of oil-less rule, Sheik Shakhbut ran his country on customs duties of $140,000 a year, fought some desultory wars with his neighbors in Sharja and Dubai, and lived quietly in his mud-walled palace on an offshore island. He installed...
"Heart & Soul." Born in Trieste, the son of a prosperous merchant, Rajakowitsch became a lawyer and moved to Vienna, where his intelligence and good looks soon earned him a wide circle of friends. One of them was Adolf Eichmann, who in 1938 was busy planning the expulsion of Jews from...
Some of the surplus is sent overseas in exchange for soft currencies and strategic materials. Some is simply given away, abroad and at home, through Food for Peace, famine relief, school lunch, and aid-to-the-needy programs. Despite these openhanded disposal efforts, the CCC still has so much produce...
The cost to the taxpayer is, of course, enormous-running to $4 billion or $5 billion a year if surplus-disposal programs are included. Acreage controls, as the CCC's massive inventories show, are ineffectual. Merely by planting crop rows closer together and dumping on more fertilizer, the farmer...