Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triple Subsidy for cotton, recently passed, calls for annual expenditures in excess of six hundred million dollars to accomplish these general purposes: support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
Though deliberately sketchy in disclosing details about the plane's capabilities at his press conference last weekend, Lyndon Johnson did say that it has already been tested from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., "in sustained flight at more than 2,000 miles an hour and at altitudes in excess of 70,000 ft." It boasts a range of "thousands of miles." Until now the all-round, highest-performance aircraft in the U.S. has been the Navy's F-4B (Phantom II), which flies at a top speed of 1,650 m.p.h., and at altitudes...
...built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose salt content rose alarmingly from 800 parts per million to more than...
...deal can be made. E.N.I.'s pipelines and service stations stretch from England to Ethiopia, but the state monopoly is short on crude to fill its refinery capacities, which will soon reach about 21 million tons annually. Gulf, like its competitors in the Middle East, has an excess of crude petroleum to work off, and Prince Pignatelli reasoned that E.N.I, would buy some of the excess if he could make the deal attractive enough...
...experience of the old Student Council and of the young HCUA calls for several changes in structure and procedure; without them the Council will remain only an arena in which frustrated politicians may work off excess energy...