Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARM BARTER PROGRAM, by which U.S. since 1949 has contracted to trade more than $850 million worth of agricultural surplus for strategic materials from abroad, is being suspended, may be cut out entirely. Government thinks barter deals have displaced dollar sales of farm goods instead of creating new foreign markets...
The Lode. Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles...
¶ Utah, which had 56 producers of lead and zinc in 1948, is down to nine. Park City, Eureka and Stockton, once thriving mining centers, are slowly dying from shutdowns, may become ghost towns. ¶ Colorado, whose 1950 lead production was 53.5 million Ibs., turned out only 41 million Ibs...
The Government is now reviewing the barter system, may curtail or even drop it. While miners would welcome that, they fear an end to stockpiling, which would increase imports and send prices down. Last week, before a meeting of the American Zinc Institute, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser said frankly...
"When George Talks." George Humphrey's budget spark went off with one of Washington's biggest bangs, and the Administration, caught unawares, reacted with near-fatal slowness. This was partly because of the respect George Humphrey has won as the recognized strong man of the Eisenhower Cabinet. "When...