Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist Russia and specifically recognized by the Communists since 1926. The Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables of 1884, he said, authorizes naval ships to examine official documents of other vessels suspected of damaging and interfering with cables under the high seas...
...colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize any arms shipments bound for revolution-torn Guatemala. Britain's cold reply: "There is no general power of search on the high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have had similar trouble with fishing trawlers for years. In cable legend, a Chinese fisherman is supposed to have once mistaken a heavy, metal-sheathed cable for gold; triumphantly, he hauled in yard after yard as his little junk slowly sank to the bottom...
Foreign Trade. "I believe that the reason we are having so much trouble competing with the other countries ... is that our costs are too high. We cannot continue to increase these costs and have the kind of foreign trade that will make our own country prosperous ... If we give way to the idea of just increasing tariffs along the line ... I just believe we are making the gravest mistake we could make...
...farms. Totting up the biggest outlays, he found that ten large operators siphoned off $3,447,902.81 in price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...
...field events, Jim Doty in the weight throw and Tom Blodgett in the pole vault are the Crimson's best bets for high finishes. Hank Abbot has a chance to score in the shot, and the jumps are anybody's guess...