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...which is declining, and thus adding to the surplus problem, there is still an increasing appetite for meat. Since 1951, beef-eating has soared from 55 Ibs. per capita to an estimated 75 Ibs. this year. As long as Americans keep their healthy appetite for beef, the way to lessen the spread between range and retail prices does not seem to be price supports. What is needed is a wider attempt to breed better-grade cattle with less waste, and a recognition by the consumer of the value of the cheaper cuts of meat...
...manage to curb most situations before they get out of hand. When a child does misbehave, he is never sent to stand in the corner as is done in many nursery schools. He is taken instead to Miss Schoellkopf's office, where he plays alone and calms down. To lessen the problems of adjustment to foreign surroundings, mothers are told to stay at the school until the child no longer needs them. Some leave after a few hours; others come with their children every day for weeks, until the child says he can stay at schools alone...
...first death came the first day. A young soldier, doing his stint in the water to "lessen the rigors of overcrowding," was stung by a sea creature and died in agony. That night, the first man went insane. The next day, 20 men built a raft of flotsam to tow behind the boat. All 20 climbed aboard. The raft sank slowly until they were half under water. In three days' time, all were dead...
...79th birthday, and ready for more work ("Unending public chores seem to have become my privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government...
...plutonium and other radioactive products for medicine, industry, etc., will increase so fast that there will be a growing market for all the plutonium they can produce. Atomic energy now costs the U.S. taxpayers $1.8 billion a year, and there is little prospect that the burden will lessen under the present law. With private industry in the field, atomic energy will stop being only an enormous drain; commercial atomic projects will be taxable, and thus a source of revenue. And instead of being "always ten years away," industrial atomic power will be a reality...