Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grain Drain. The crises that confront India are grave indeed. First on the list is the perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three straight years, Indian grain production remained static at 80 million tons. Sharp traders from Bombay to Calcutta capitalized on the underproduction by buying up wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat...
...James Farmer is just as explicit. Delivering the opening address at his organization's 21st national convention in Durham, N.C., recently, Farmer said: "It is impossible for the Government to maintain a decisive war against poverty and bigotry in the U.S. while it is pouring billions down the drain in war against people in Viet Nam. The billion dollars available to fight poverty is puny compared with the need and insignificant compared with the resources expended in wars...
...WORST' LEGIT SEASONS, headlined Variety, while the New York Times intoned, THE THEATER TODAY: NO PLACE FOR DRAMA. In 52 attempts, 36 shows flopped, ten got into the black, and six are still struggling. Financially, of the $8,097,040 invested, $5,742,863 went down the drain, which does not take into account the six productions financed at $1,156,854 that died before reaching Broadway...
...American citizen who would purposefully drain away our water supply [TIME, June 18] demonstrates an asinine irresponsibility. Like various protest movements today, this seems unrelated to the issue it purports to represent...
...BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM. Administration efforts to cut the flow of dollars through Government spending abroad have slashed the net balance-of-payments drain from federal expenditures by 23%, or $635 million, since June 1963. By 1967 those costs will drop another 13%. "These improvements," said the President, "have been obtained without sacrificing essential U.S. commitments abroad...