Word: hoards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal 1955 the U.S. will spend $900 million (some $250 million more than 1954) to buy 22 essential stockpile items, from aluminum and diamonds to feathers and fluorspar. By next year, the bulging U.S. war chest will reach a staggering $5 billion, rivaling the $6.5 billion farm surplus hoard. Since the buying was stepped up after the end of the Korean war, a big question has been raised: Is the strategic stockpile a military program, or is it a vast and expensive price-support program for the U.S. mining industry...
Today, despite the addition of a $10 million annex, the library is hard put to preserve, store and display its growing hoard. For lack of personnel, books from its stacks cannot be issued after 6 p.m. Its 2,300,000 maps need far more space. For lack of funds, its collection of 2,234,000 photos and slides is kept filed away instead of being exhibited throughout the country. Despite President Eisenhower's request for more funds, the 83rd Congress has appropriated only $8,965,000-a decrease of 5%-to help new Librarian Mumford take care...
Cass Canfield '19, Chairman of the Hoard of Harper and brothers, will moderate the Career conference on "Writing. Journalism, and Publishing" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Eliot House Dining Room...
John Ford deserves much credit for the smoothness and interest of the formerly dull plays. He keeps the pace fast and stresses action to break up the long stretches of dialogue. His lurking camera finds unexpected stances and hiding places from which to catch the actors in their ship hoard and barroom life. Full force of storms and brawls come to the audience through the mobile camera eye, and the feeling of close shipboard quarters presses in as a man lies dying in a narrow bunk...
...permission were granted, the deal would amount to twelve times last year's tiny trickle of U.S. exports to the Soviet, bloc. In addition, Andreas indicated that the Russians might eventually take 150 million lbs. of each commodity. That is more than half the Agriculture Department's hoard of butter and almost a sixth of its larger store of cottonseed oil, both of which Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson would love to unload...