Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to your story on Bolivia [March 2] was more violent but otherwise in line with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm...
...sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that the Republican majority in the Michigan senate had "doomed the state to a financial disaster" by rejecting his plea for a $50 million bond issue to meet state payrolls and other pressing expenses...
...Japan's 46,780,000 women, Michiko-san's unprecedented break with ancient tradition is the most dramatic illustration of a change that has come to all of them-the direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation of the green and pleasant islands by U.S. troops, and the new constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception...
...race of hardy men who for centuries wrested a precarious living from the offshore fishing banks, Newfoundlanders are turning away from the sea to more rewarding work ashore. Now the island's pulp and paper mills, its mines, its green harvest of federal social welfare payments, and the payrolls of four U.S. air and naval bases all contribute more to the economy than the island's once all-important fisheries. Before confederation, Newfoundlanders earned an average of $150 each per year; they have boosted this to $775, but their standard of living still lags far behind that...
...This is still an entertainment business. Every ball game is not going to be an exciting one. That's where fireworks and baseball personalities and bands come in. Owners should experiment. Maybe the uniforms should be improved-maybe it's better to use green or purple...