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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main difficulty is that the new bill also relaxes or abolishes acreage controls, raises the prospect that farmers across the country could suddenly decide to put every available acre in, say, corn and sell to the Government at the announced price ($1.10 per bu. minimum). This danger is increased by the termination this year of the Soil Bank's expensive "acreage reserve" section, under which farmers were paid for keeping acres out of corn and other cash crops. Benson himself knows that the $6 billion annual cost of the farm program, big enough to bother Hubert Humphrey...
...country's annual needs. Although reserves are estimated at 2.3 billion bbl., Argentina is forced to import about $300 million worth of petroleum products a year-a sum roughly equal to the 1957 trade deficit. The President then listed the precedent-shattering development arrangements with foreign companies. The main deals...
Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...
...himself) wrote O'Connor in January of 1957 suggesting that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation merge for an all-out attack on rheumatic diseases. Through last spring, committees of the two foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local...
...Main African inequalities...