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...More U.S. purchases to lighten immediate market gluts...
...hours more the Pinta circled over Bermuda to lighten its gasoline load and give the crew time to prepare the 25 passengers with pillows beneath their safety belts and show them how to hold their heads down before the crash. Some of the children began to cry. An old lady became hysterical. Padre Gonzalez Salas prayed harder. One of the passengers asked him for absolution. With permission from Captain Rein-Loring, the priest went through the plane preparing his fellow passengers for death with the act of contrition and prayer...
...code need not desert all standards. Rather, it should rely upon the instinctive, more sacred American justification for sacrifice; group loyalty, aimed at minimizing the hardships of fellow prisoners. Even if prisoners of war are allowed to confess their own "crimes" freely to lessen torture, they must not lighten their burden by betraying fellow prisoners. Each prisoner should be obligated to withstand torture whenever possible to prevent incriminating a fellow prisoner. Also disclosure of vital information, bringing danger to American troops, deserves the full punishment...
...industrial growth. Instead of ignoring TVA's needs (as had been done in the 1953 budget), Dodge decided that he could either 1) request $100 million in the 1955 budget for a new TVA steam plant, which Congress had already rejected twice, or 2) find ways to lighten TVA's load...
...International Finance Corp. (TIME, Nov. 22) promised by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at November's economic conference in Rio. Proposed as a $100 million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also ask Congress to lighten taxation on U.S. firms doing business in Latin America, thus encouraging more investment there. ¶ Later in January, in a major speech on TV, Milton Eisenhower will make an "encouraging appraisal" of the effects to date of the recommendations that he made late in 1953, after a swing through South America...