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...from the royal palace. The Shah sent crackling orders to Premier Zahedi to complete immediately an Isfahan irrigation project planned to bring thousands of acres into cultivation. He put pressure behind other reforms: a combined water supply-hydroelectric scheme for Teheran, completion of the much-needed Teheran-Tabriz railroad, low-cost workers' housing. He told Zahedi and Finance Minister Ali Amini to speed the return of the royal family estates, taken by Mohammed Mossadegh four months ago to thwart the Shah's plans to parcel out the land to landless peasants. Under the Shah's scheme...
...Look at what's happening to the policy of developing low-cost electric power. The betrayal of the Hell's Canyon project in the Columbia River Basin tells the story. If they can give Hell's Canyon away, others will follow. The power lobby is doing its best to take over Niagara Falls. And the bell will be tolling for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration and all the rest...
...committee stated that progress has been made. By May 1953, supplies of ammunition in Korea had been brought up to snuff, were adequate "to meet any contingency or emergency that may arise." At home, there are now more civilian factories producing ammunition, work is being better distributed, and low-cost producers are being encouraged. Planned production for the fiscal year 1954 will exceed the total produced during the last 36 months...
Opening his campaign in his home town of Guelph, Ont. last month, Drew took the challenger's initiative, swung hard with a 16-point manifesto - his party's most cohesive statement of policy in recent years. Among its points: a national low-cost housing plan; a contributory health-insurance program, "without introducing state medicine''; a revised system of farm price supports; a $500 million tax cut without harming national defense. He also charged the government with laxity in ferreting out Communists in government and defense jobs, saying. "We are not going to make our country...
Wilson, occupied with high-level huddles, left most of the Pentagon intramural work to Kyes. Some Kyes policies: tighter correlation of production schedules: use whenever possible of standard civilian goods (e.g., trucks) instead of specially-designed items; channeling production contracts to low-cost producers...