Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME, May...
...None (March 1946), Drs. Frederick Seitz and Hans A, Bethe, who worked on the U.S. bomb, estimated that "any one of several determined foreign nations could duplicate our work in about five years." The Russians actually did it in a little over four years, counting from Hiroshima. But they may have started sooner than that, and they certainly had some help from German atomic scientists...
...some fantastic losses. Because of a potato surplus in 1947, the Department of Agriculture last year restricted the acreage. But farmers simply planted rows closer together and presented CCC with a bumper crop of 446 million bushels. Net loss to date: $203 million. In the coming potato season Congress may get tougher and tell farmers, not how many acres they can plant, but how many bushels they can grow...
...sight for eggs. To maintain the market for shell eggs, CCC offered to buy dried eggs at $1.27 a Ib. This was such a handsome price that CCC had to buy nearly 30 million Ibs. of dried eggs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan is afraid the total cost may run to $200 million. Despite the enormous surplus, wholesale prices this month were the highest in a quarter century. Mourned Brannan: "The prospects for the year ahead are still more discouraging...
...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...