Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost at war's end, SS Leader Heinrich Himmler was using scarce materials to build a country house for his mistress. Speer's plea for women workers was vetoed by Hitler, at Martin Bormann's suggestion, on the grounds that it would keep them from producing good Aryan offspring. Half a million Ukrainian girls were brought into Germany instead, to become servants in the homes of Nazi functionaries...
...diaries of the acerbic Harvard economist, to be published in the October issue of American Heritage, contain some other fascinating passages, notably an account of Jackie Kennedy's state visit to India ("The President had told me that the care and management of Mrs. Kennedy involved a good deal of attention, and he is quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded...
...Senate Finance Committee pounced on Kennedy's proposals. "You've taken $1.7 billion from the average forgotten American and given it to the corporations," complained Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke. Though some of the Administration's proposals-notably its defense of investment incentives-may make good economic sense, many of them are likely to be doomed by their lack of popular appeal...
...people to whom money is a mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot pay, Washington will have to absorb the loss. "The bank understood the people," mourns Mayor Bruton, summing up what seems to be the prevailing philosophy of his town. "The inspectors just didn't understand the bank...
...major reason for the glut is bumper crops resulting from good weather. On top of that, the major exporting nations, except the U.S., have expanded their wheat acreage. In Australia, for example, the amount of farm land devoted to wheat has doubled in the last five years. Improved technology and a new high-yield strain of dwarf wheat have greatly reduced the annual import needs of food-shy India and Pakistan. Both countries now expect to become self-sufficient in wheat production by the mid-1970s...