Word: leached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After drinking with friends at a pub in Bradford - a West Yorkshire industrial town ten miles west of Leeds, where the Ripper had struck twice before - Sociology Student Barbara Leach, 20, went out for a stroll near the University of Bradford. After listening to the recording of the Ripper's threat, she had promised her worried parents that she would never go out alone at night. But this time, she took the chance. She never got home again. After she had been missing for 40 hours, her mutilated body, partly covered by an old piece of carpet, was found...
...Republican James Leach drove out into the cornfields in his district in southeastern Iowa. He stopped at the home of Merle Glenney, who coaxed the Congressman into a pickup truck for a tour of his farm. Glenney urged Leach to seek lower inheritance taxes on farms that pass from one generation to another. He said the price of land is so high (up to $3,000 per acre in this area) that young farmers can rarely buy a farm and those who inherit one, as his son Dwight will one day, are hurt by heavy taxes...
Getting out of the truck, Glenney led Leach into a barn. The farmer pointed to a battered 1955 International Harvester tractor. "See this tractor," he said. "I bought that for $3,600 when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...
...Leach's shoes still bore dirt from Glenney's fields, when, wearing a blue suit and yellow shirt, he faced some 30 people seated on yellow plastic chairs in a bank basement in tiny Columbus Junction. Complained one farmer: "Everything that comes out of Washington these days violates the American free-enterprise system." The farmer said the problem could partly be countered by abolishing the income tax on corporations...
...Replied Leach wryly: "That is a unique and thoughtful approach, but I doubt whether it would be widely embraced." At several stops, Leach asked for a show of hands on whether the Federal Government should help the ailing Chrysler Corp. in its financial troubles. Insisted an insurance man in the town of Washington: "They should have the same right to go broke as I do." Nevertheless, the vote there was 18 to 10 in favor of a federal loan guarantee for Chrysler...