Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That idea never materialized...
...sooner had President Johnson proposed that the Commerce and Labor departments be merged than Connor said he thought this was a fine idea. Thereupon he announced that he would shortly be leaving Government to return to the business world. Last week, after sorting many offers, he found a likely berth. Allied Chemical Corp., a $1.2 billion company that ranks fifth in the chemical industry, named Connor, 52, as its next president. The retiring Secretary will not become chief executive of Allied; that post is still to be held by Chester M. Brown, 59, who has been acting as both chairman...
...backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered up to 220 for each of Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea is to cut production back by 20% to match what Brazil really needs for exports and home consumption. At the same time, planters are being encouraged through price supports to convert coffee land to rice, beans, corn and other crops in short supply. To put pressure on big operators...
...Sign. That looks like an attractive idea to many; to others, it seems an impossible test of American patience. At any rate, Lyndon Johnson's policy has been to build up U.S. forces to the point where they could, as Schlesinger urges, hold the line in terms of manpower and firepower. But what would happen if the U.S. held its line while the Communists put in more troops? Schlesinger believes that the U.S. already has "enough" strength on the scene to convince Hanoi "that a Communist government will not be imposed on South Viet Nam by force." Yet Hanoi...
Hull, "for nearly 100 years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning." He proposed that an international trusteeship be set up with a polyglot membership including French, Chinese, Russian, Philippine, U.S. and Indo-Chinese representatives, to prepare the country for independence. But the idea died with F.D.R. The French moved back into Indo-China, and with monumental lack of foresight, immediately reimposed the same old colonial order. Thus was the stage set for Dien-bienphu, partition and the present war. Historian Schlesinger concedes with disarming candor that history is a terribly "tricky" tool for predicting...