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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beaming happily in the stifling Washington heat (90°), Rockefeller turned up at the Capitol Hill Club headquarters at 214 First Street S.E. †for Pepsi-Cola-on-the-rocks (later sipping Dubonnet, he professionally held it under the table whenever he saw a photographer approaching) and an informal feed of Maine lobster and corn on the cob in the club garden...
...Conrad contemplated his growing family, concluded it would be easier to feed and educate them in Switzerland. Finding an inexpensive villa near Lausanne, he installed his family there and began making flying visits from Minnesota to Europe. In 1952 the family moved back to the U.S. and settled in San Francisco, but Conrad had learned to like the long hours of flight. He made profit out of pleasure by ferrying U.S. planes to distributors and customers in Europe. To while away the lonely hours, he composed songs in flight, chiefly to keep himself awake, became known as the "flying songwriter...
...Douglas solution: small streams of air were diverted from the engine's compressors and shot downward and forward. The air jets hit the runway, blow away the converging air that would feed a vortex. No vortex forms, and indigestible objects stay on the ground...
Easy Pickings. The drop in prices was largely seasonal, although the surplus was the result of the revolution in egg raising. Not only do today's hens lay twice as many eggs per bushel of feed as their grandmothers did, but their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise...
Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...