Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week gave a progress report on his program to shrink the mountain of surplus U.S. dairy products by lower price supports and a huge giveaway program. Lower price supports so spurred consumption that Benson was able to cut new purchases of butter by 45%, of cheese by 66%, of dried milk by 21%. Under the giveaway program, the U.S. in 1954 distributed a total 1.7 billion Ibs. of excess butter, cheese and dried milk, much of it free to welfare agencies at home and abroad, treble the amount disposed of in 1953. Together...
...Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...isolated himself from most day-to-day routine, and from direct contact with all but a selected few (some ministers concerned only with domestic affairs may see him once a year, if that). Daily, Chiang rises before 6. At that hour, the house on the lower slopes of Grass Mountain, just north of Taipei, is quiet; outside, the ever-present armed guards stand silently among the trees. Chiang's day begins with an hour of prayer and meditation. Often Madame Chiang joins him, and they may sit silently together for the whole hour...
...medium-sized businessmen discovered that they could afford to fly. With four people in a plane, seat costs dropped as low as 5? per mile (v. 5? for scheduled airliners). The added savings in time and energy getting to remote spots was incalculable. Lumbermen bought planes to appraise mountain tracts more easily; ranchers used them for aerial roundups; construction men, uranium hunters, salesmen, all took...
...Kentucky mountain town of Hazard one day last week, an old coal miner walked up to a minor commotion on the sidewalk and stuck out his hand. "I hear you're running for governor,'' he said to the grinning, greying man in the center of the crowd. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 56, clutched the miner's hand and encircled his waist with a powerful left arm. "The rumor's out, is it?" he said. "Well, I'm trying to spread...