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...further pare government expenditures, the Chamber of Commerce wants to climinate all grants to the states for old age and public welfare assistance and unemployment compensation. Under the present system, federal aid is given the state program in proportion to the per capita wealth of the states, the poorer receiving more aid than the richer. Discontinuing federal support would probably have no serious effect on the richer states, but the poorer states would be forced either to give up their social insurance programs completely, or at least to curtail them drastically...
...from juices and frozen concentrates. Even the waste is used to make such citrus byproducts as citrus pectins, citric acid and lemon oils. Florida grows more oranges, but California and Arizona have the lemon business practically to themselves. Sunkist grows 82% of the nation's total, is converting poorer-grade orange orchards to lemons by grafting lemon branches on full-grown orange trees. Though oranges are still the biggest part (72%) of the co-op's business, Armstrong's lemonade business takes all the farmers grow. "And the nicest part of the whole thing," says Armstrong...
...soldier lives in drafty, cold wooden shacks that have been condemned years ago. The plumbing is rusted and faulty, and the heating is almost nonexistent. The so-called poorer countries of France, Italy and Germany furnished their troops with comfortable brick barracks that had rooms for single occupancy to a maximum of a squadroom for six to eight soldiers...
...cause of high meat prices is the consumers' preference for "choice" and "prime" grades of beef instead of the lower-priced "good" and "commercial" grades. Thus the premium-grade cuts are bid up beyond their actual worth. Actually, "good" beef at its best is almost indistinguishable from the poorer run of "choice" meat. But many retailers refuse to stock...
When his first volume left him poorer than before, he turned reluctantly to fiction. For 30 years thereafter he slogged away, writing novels that nobody could understand and consoling himself with poems that only a few poets wanted to read. Typically, even George Meredith's everyday letters were written in a syntax so impenetrable that they needed a second or third reading...