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Honestus: No, not entirely. The overproduction is the combined result of the technological revolution and the Government's price-support programs. High price supports tend to bring on gluts because they divert land, capital and effort into production of the supported crops...
...restored it to private enterprise. In one adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard...
...World War II. Said Nikita:."I wouldn't say that this was pleasant for the people." But he argued that the move was necessary. Reason: collective farmers "have not been materially interested in increasing their output" because prices were so low. But the government claimed it could not divert funds from defense for farm incentive payments or purchase needed equipment, because the U.S. is "harboring plans for a surprise nuclear rocket attack on the Soviet Union"-hence the cost must be passed on to the housewife...
...crash program to develop a hydrogen bomb? Strauss pleaded for it, but Lilienthal and the other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis...
Trying to establish the reciprocal nature of every cold war move, Waskow cited the Soviet Sputnik as an, event that forced the U.S. to divert funds and energy from strictly military research to space projects. He suggested that a billion dollars worth of American aid to India would guarantee a mirror-response because the Russians are already committed to competing for influence there...