Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dump Truck. In a step aimed at boosting farm production, the government granted incentives to collective farms by canceling their $2 billion debt to the State Bank and promised premium prices for any deliveries above quotas. Also announced was a $77 billion investment in agriculture by 1970 -most of it to be paid by the government. On the industrial front, Kosygin called for more consumer goods, announced that the next Five Year Plan would provide higher wages for factory workers, who currently earn an average $120 a month. It was the first indication of a break in the long wage...
...only Peter Skolnick (who directed this disaster) had injected some buoyancy, some life, some fun, some chutzpah-he could have saved the whole shebang. Then, what the hell, we wouldn't have cared about the squeaky horns, cracking tenors, dump jokes, flickering spotlights, missed cues. We wouldn't have minded when an actor got stuck in the safety-pinned curtain, or when another knocked over a teapot. Oh for goodness sake-even a little filth would have helped...
...Canberra bombers from Bienhoa and Da nang in South Viet Nam, as well as bases in Thailand and possibly the Philippines. Some 30 of the planes peeled off and headed for Quangkhe, while the main force converged on Xombang (appropriately pronounced zom-bang), a jungle staging area and supply dump for infiltrators, ten miles north of the South Viet Nam frontier. More than 120 tons of bombs rained down on Xombang, and U.S. officers later reported "severe damage." All told, one South Vietnamese and five U.S. planes were downed during the raids, but five of the six pilots were rescued...
...capital, Lima, is bigger than Detroit, and sleek modern skyscrapers crowd in on some of the most magnificent Spanish architecture this side of Madrid. Yet 400,000 of its 2,000,000 citizens squat in festering slums, among them the infamous Planeta, built next to a centuries-old garbage dump, where stony-faced Indians scrabble in the smoldering refuse...
...conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...