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There is plenty of evidence that research can solve many farm-surplus problems. Powdered eggs have been so improved that they have hatched a new line of cake and cookie mixes. Only a few years ago surplus-ridden citrus growers in Florida were destroy ing tons of oranges in an effort to bolster prices; now about 50% of their crop is being turned into frozen orange juice and many growers are expanding. A new process, developed by the Agriculture Department, to dehydrate cooked potatoes has proved so successful that several manufacturers have put the product on the market. Predicts...
...could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...
While the House was cutting and stitch ing, its Appropriations Committee cut $218 million, a whacking 25%, out of the Commerce Department's request for 1958. That brought the committee's total score so far to about $1 billion out of seven bills totaling $14.5 billion. But upwards of half the chips in that impressive $1 billion pile are phony, e.g., $207 million out of payments to veterans, $76 million out of old-age-assistance grants to states. Federal outlays of this sort are governed by laws, and as long as the laws remain on the books. Congress...
...LEASE-PURCHASE" PLAN, under which Government hoped to buy back new federal buildings from private contractors on installment plan, is be ing stalled by tight money. No acceptable bids have been found for eight of the nine planned buildings that were to be paid off over ten to 25 years. Reason: builders have trouble finding funds to finance projects, want more than Government's 4% maximum interest on deferred payments...
...average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering chaos of ships and men," the massacres in the beam of a German searchlight, the tragic survivors, a few of whom were found wander ing days later in England, not knowing "who they were or where they were...