Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government that it costs the taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year just to keep the stuff in storage. Last year the Agriculture Department spent something like $7 billion, largely for price-support programs. That was more than twice the combined expenditures of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor departments all put together...
...Eisenhower Administration ordered the Government to purchase an additional 760,000 tons at prices above the market-which cost some $200 million-and made the purchases without the customary competitive bidding. The purpose of the purchases, testified Felix E. Wormser, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources, was not to hoard critical and scarce materials-the goal of the stockpiling program-but to shore up production and prices in the troubled minerals industry. Wormser, who came to the Government from his job as vice president of St. Joseph Lead Co. (40% of U.S. lead production) and later returned...
...investigation, federal bureaucracy blocked an eminently sensible sale of tungsten. In March, three electric companies-Westinghouse, General Electric and Sylvania*#151;were ready to buy 5,000,000 lbs. of tungsten from the stockpile at market prices to use in making lamps to fill a Government contract. But the Interior Department vetoed the sale on the ground that it would curtail demand. Result: one of the companies had to buy its tungsten abroad, thus adding to the balance-of-payments deficit. Though the stockpile objective for tungsten is 50 million Ibs., the Government is now stuck with more than three...
Under U.S. pressure, Boun Oum and General Phoumi agreed at the start to give up the key Defense and Interior ministries in return for Prince Souvanna Phouma's promise that all important decisions in these vital areas be made by mutual consent-although no one was sure how a government could function effectively under such conditions. After an hour's talk, the delegates emerged for a breather and a good cigar. In a surprisingly mellow mood...
Instead of describing student behavior in terms of interior motivation, von Stade listed several kinds of outside pressure affecting undergraduate life. Among the forces he mentioned were...