Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By way of compromise, Seligman promised to pay a $60 monthly bribe, was assured that he would no longer be bothered with summonses; if by chance he was ticketed by another inspector who was not in on the take, Seligman was told that Loughran would overlook it. In this way...
POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that...
Not since 1798, when the Rev. Thomas Malthus gloomily concluded that "the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man," had Western statesmen and thinkers been so preoccupied with the physical problem of feeding the world's people. At the...
If so much of the world is undernourished, why does the U.S. not empty all those shiny storage bins? Why don't other nations, such as Canada and Australia, join in distributing their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3...
This represents just about all that can be usefully given away, says a senior U.S. Agriculture Department official. He argues that most poor nations (the polite expression used to be underdeveloped countries, but now planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free...