Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprisoned by the invading Japanese for five months: He returned home to stump the U.S., used his high-pitched. 240-word-per minute delivery to urge that trade be cut with Japan. "You have a choice between your silks and your sons," he warned American mothers. After Pearl Harbor proved him right, he was elected to Congress...
...Casino at Monte Carlo was still firm on its foundations; the roulette wheels were running true. Princess Grace's promised return to Hollywood quickened the hearts of her countrymen. The sun bathed a harbor filled with yachts. Nevertheless, gloom last week hung over the tiny, 370-acre principality of Monaco. Reason: income taxes...
...threat to the Dunes comes from two steel companies, Bethlehem and Midwest Steel, who own the remaining land and wish to erect two steel mills on it. The steel companies, backed by leading Indiana politicians, support a proposal to build a harbor in the middle of the Dunes at Burns Ditch. They were jubilant at a recent report by the Corps of Army Engineers upholding the feasibility of the project...
...construction of the harbor, besides ruining the Dunes, would cost the nation's taxpayers at least $27 million plus interest and maintenance expenses and the people of Indiana would have to contribute an additional $38 million in initial construction costs. Ninety percent of the benefits of the harbor would go to the Midwest Steel Company alone. The gross injustice of this ideal is obvious...
...aligned against such a plan which include an influential group of Indiana citizens, labor unions, many members of Congress and President Kennedy, are employing several tactics to protect the Dunes. First they have asked the steel companies and the Engineers to explore other available sites for both mills and harbor. They have requested Northwestern University to cancel its purchase of two and a half million cubic yards of Dunes' sand from Bethlehem Steel (one would expect the trustees, faculty and students of the University to realize the significance of this unfortunate deal). Finally Senator Douglas and his colleagues have proposed...