Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have less playing like puppets on the part of our press? The American people are not afraid. Let our editors and press absorb some of that courage...
...Senate space subcommittee that ARPA is spending $1,000,000 on a wild-blue-yonder project designed to fly a 1,000-ton manned platform through space by baby A-bomb nuclear power. Not long ago, said he, the project was called "screwball"-but it "looks a little less screwball...
...trouble to ask the farmer himself is likely to get some startlingly different answers. Last week the big (circ. 3,100,000) Farm Journal announced the most remarkable results yet of a farm poll. The Journal asked its subscribers to vote on whether they wanted 1) more support, 2) less support, or 3) no support at all. Results: of the first 10,000 replies, fully 78% were for lower supports and fewer controls. Of these, 55% wanted the Government to get clear out of the subsidy business...
...Cornell University: "Farmers recognize that the old basic-crop legislation is outmoded. It has placed ineffective bureaucratic controls on farmers, destroyed markets, piled up surpluses, and imposed heavy burdens on taxpayers . . . The voice of the American farmer calls in louder and louder tones for more freedom to act and less Government interference. If this is what farmers want, what are we waiting...
...Less than a year ago, the U.S. had such a glut of copper that the industry was asking for tariffs and subsidies. By last week copper supplies were, so tight that the price of copper was bobbing like a puppet. Custom smelters, who had been selling copper at 32? a lb., got out of the market for a week, came back at 34?-a lb. Major producers were selling copper at 31? a lb., v. last year...