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Such scenes help explain why the Government's huge stores of agricultural surpluses have recently been dropping at a surprising rate. While the school-lunch program got more than $100 million last fiscal year, the fastest-growing part of the domestic disposal program is the handout program to welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Giveaway Grocer | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Battle for Survival. In many states stores have been enlisted (at payment of 10? to 15? a recipient) to distribute the surpluses. Participating stores have noted some rise in sales of fresh meat, vegetables and fruit, which are not on the surplus list; the landfall of free groceries apparently encourages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Giveaway Grocer | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Bert Tallamy, 54, a civil engineer who spends his winter weekends snowshoeing in the mountains near his West Sand Lake, N.Y. home, has been building public projects ever since he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1925. He got his first job building sewers and water mains in Buffalo, soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Highway Man | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Wakley was a disenchanted physician who launched the Lancet in 1823 as a vehicle to attack the abuses rampant in 19th century medicine. His magazine tilted at the high-collared sacred cows of Harley Street, crusaded for better sewage disposal, better operative technique, more humane treatment of the insane. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plain English Diction | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Bushel by bushel, bale by bale, the U.S. has succeeded in cutting down its embarrassing surplus of farm products by $2.9 billion since 1954 (still leaving more than $8 billion), the White House reported last week to Congress. Of that amount, $1.2 billion in surplus food, tobacco and cotton was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Cutting the Surplus | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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