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Raid on Aid. None was fatter than the $251 million depressed-areas bill locked up in the House Rules Committee for more than a year. With a magic appeal to both urban and farm areas, the Democratic bill provides for loans and grants to areas of chronic unemployment (so broadly defined, say Republicans, that New York City could qualify), to be dispensed by a U.S. Area Redevelopment Administration. Two revolving funds of $75 million each would furnish loans to spur industry in urban and rural areas; $50 million in loans would be available for construction of public facilities; direct grants...
...advertising losses that reduced the paper's size from an average 55 pages to 28. What most worried the Franco Cabinet was that the Catalan boycott, in addition to being anti-Galinsoga, was becoming increasingly antigovernment. Within the week after Galinsoga got fired, La Vanguardia was four pages fatter and plainly on the mend...
...research, Hooton also discovered that Americans are not only growing taller than ever before, but also staying slimmer when they are young and getting fatter as they age. Hooton also found that most men decrease slightly in their height after reaching maturity...
What irks the colleges is the suggestion, however unintentional, that students (specifically needy and able ones) are more suspect than other citizens, such as farmers or businessmen, who get much fatter federal subsidies, with no requirement for declaiming their loyalty. Moreover, the colleges ask, what Communist ever hesitated to sign an oath...
...their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...