Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with any since the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt. Steered intact through the divided 87th Congress were a $394 million depressed areas bill, an increase in the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour with expanded minimum wage coverage, an omnibus $6.8 billion housing bill, a controversial feed-grains bill, a huge, eleven-year, $21 billion interstate highways bill. Most of the credit belongs to Larry O'Brien, a man who hates to lose. "We never know when we're beaten," he says of himself and his staff. "We never...
...Donahue. But O'Brien knows well that patronage is still a potent political instrument; he makes recommendations to Bailey on major appointments, and his suggestions receive top-priority consideration. Thus, when the 14 members of the Italian-American congressional bloc threatened to vote against the Administration's feed-grains bill just to demonstrate their power, O'Brien quickly found out what was on their minds: no man of Italian descent had been appointed to a major Administration post. O'Brien promised to look into the matter for them, the bloc voted right, and a few weeks...
...skaters and their complicated figures mean nothing; the only thing that counts to them is the act of cutting through the ice and sending down food. Dillon put the same message in his own dogged way: "Although we have charted the way to progress, plans alone will not feed the people, cure the sick or educate our children. We must now undertake the hard and steady work of making a reality out of our dreams...
...European demand for U.S. raw materials should grow. Common Market duties will remain low on the materials and fuels that Europe needs to feed her burgeoning industrial machine. Thus there will be an increase in the shipments of U.S. ores, fibers, scrap, raw chemicals, and non-mineral oils, which constitute 30% of current U.S. exports to the Continent. Exports of food and tobacco, which make up another 30% of the U.S. total, should remain about even, as rising European demand is balanced by rising protectionism for Europe's farmers...
...magic wand of land reform longest. Before the 1910 revolution, 97% of Mexico's farm land was held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...