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Asked Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper: "Is it a fair statement to say these policy directives at the very outset almost inevitably led to the ammunition shortage?" Replied Decker: "I would say that's a fair statement...
...President Eisenhower has two major problems, and one of them is Korea." said a Washington official last week. "The other one is the drop in farm prices." At the outset of its term, the new Administration has to deal with a farm-price decline that began in 1951, continued through 1952 (an average 11% during the year), and is now pinching many farmers hard. Last week talk of a farm depression was in the air, and a Chicago commodity letter saw "economic disaster" ahead if the new Administration did not change its "lackadaisical attitude" and do something quick...
Witness No. 3 was Vladimir I. Toumanoff, 29, formerly a department recruiting officer, now concerned with efficiency rating. With his testimony, the investigation turned specifically toward the question of homosexuals. At the outset Chairman Joe McCarthy struck a wild blow: Witness Toumanoff, he observed, was born "in the Russian Legation [in Constantinople] subsequent to the Communist revolution, so that of necessity his parents had to be acceptable to the Communist regime." The facts are that Toumanoff's parents were titled White Russians, and the legation was still a czarist enclave at the time of his birth...
...suggested that such drastic alterations in the industrial scene be made at the outset of German occupation so that relatively little continuing interference would have to be made in Germany's internal affairs...
...world. "Every dog," Author Ford says, "should have a man of his own . . . Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend." However, says Ford, who is owned by an English setter named Cider, a dog must "make it clear from the outset which one of you is boss." A man should only be allowed to sit in one easy chair, and should not eat out of the same dish as his master. After a man has become "thoroughly familiar with the leash, one end may be hooked to the dog's collar and the other...