Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time we are cutting down on their bills. I don't understand it.") In the $4.6 billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South...
...tooth. They are mostly iron and manganese oxides, but they often contain considerable amounts of copper, nickel and cobalt. "The amounts are absolutely staggering," says Dr. Henry Menard of Scripps. One 10-million-sq.-mi. area in the Pacific, he estimates, has nodules worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile...
...Lately cotton consumption has risen 12% in France, 11% in West Germany, and 20% in Japan following trade-fair promotions. Industry sources believe the current 5,700,000-bale foreign market can be boosted to 8,000,000. Says the Cotton Council: "If we could get world cotton consumption per capita up to anywhere near U.S. consumption there would be a world cotton shortage...
...will build and operate a $10 million plant for Weirton Steel, j a $3,000,000 plant for Granite City Steel, and a $7,000,000 plant for Jones & , Laughlin. Accounting for 25% of industry j sales, Air Products has helped bring the cost of oxygen down from $1 per 100 cu. ft. to 5? per...
...Nebraska Dentist Ward Newcomb. Cows often wear out their front teeth by chewing abrasive materials along with grass, thus shortening their lives. The false teeth, consisting of stainless steel caps, were designed to prolong the breeding lives of valuable cows, paying off in extra calves. Cost: about $15 per...