Word: outright
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Labor. Both support the right to organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
Shepilov's reply was swift and stunning. "Japan has no right," he snapped, "to raise any claim on any territory occupied by the Soviet Union." Furthermore, announced Radio Moscow, two smaller islands that Russia had previously offered to return to Japan outright would now be returned only "on certain conditions," since Japan had apparently not appreciated Russia's "magnanimous act." Shepilov also cited Yalta, where both the U.S. and Britain agreed to let the Russians grab the Kurils as part of the Russian terms for entering into what proved to be its week-long participation...
What is worse, resistance to integration has been steadily mounting. More than 70 pro-segregation bills or resolutions, ranging from outright nullification resolutions in Georgia and Alabama to a Mississippi bill authorizing special secret agents to spy on integrationists, have come before Southern legislatures. The number of private organizations formed to fight desegregation has climbed to 46, with the Citizens' Councils alone claiming 500,000 members. Other activities of the pro-segregationists last week: ¶ In a special session of the Florida legislature, the state house of representatives passed four bills to circumvent a state supreme court ruling that...
...down its embarrassing surplus of farm products by $2.9 billion since 1954 (still leaving more than $8 billion), the White House reported last week to Congress. Of that amount, $1.2 billion in surplus food, tobacco and cotton was either sold, bartered (for precious minerals and other materials), or given outright to the needy during the first six months of 1956. Overall, the U.S. lost money in the disposal, from 1) a $1.3 billion deficit on the actual sales and donations, 2) the exchange of surpluses for foreign currency, most of which was dispensed again in foreign aid. While the President...
Magic Lamp. The dam, a dramatic project that will irrigate 2,000,000 acres of desert, is estimated to cost $1.3 billion over a period of ten years. The U.S. has offered to grant $56 million outright and Britain another $14 million, for a start. Further grants have been promised, but cannot be guaranteed because the U.S. cannot commit Congress more than a year in advance. A major chunk is to come in the form of $200 million loans from the World Bank. Though most of the details of financing were settled months ago, there have been mysterious delays, which...