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...Mexico as just a starter. Since Mexico had drilled an average of 35 wells annually in the last ten years, and "it might take 10,000 or more" to develop the fields fully, the eventual cost might run from $2 to $4 billion. The U.S. "cannot afford" to lend that much money, especially since chances are slim that Mexico's monopoly could...
...farmer would not be responsible if the wheat subsequently rotted; it would be graded according to its original condition. Once the wheat was stored, the farmer could draw the other 25% of his loan. The CCC will also build 50 million bushels of storage space of its own, lend farmers 85% of the cost of building their own storage facilities and, if necessary, store wheat in airplane hangars, Army igloos and other Government-owned property. Brannan even suggested emergency storage space for about 15 million bushels in the holds of the Government's "mothball fleet" of Liberty ships...
...Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to India, from which he shortly returned with Delhi belly and another manuscript which "can never be published," he says, "as long as Winston Churchill is still alive...
...Life with Mother and The Traitor flopped financially; despite a badly mixed press, Where's Charley? and Jean Giraudoux's enchanting Madwoman of Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...
...university statement on Trumbo and Scott said that "it is our understanding that their trials (on contempt charges) are scheduled for the near future. It is against university policy to lend itself as a sounding board for attempts at pretrial by defendants whose cases are pending before the courts...