Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soil-bank payments will begin in September or October, and they will pour into the hardest-hit areas in the pivotal Midwestern states; e.g., Iowa stands to get about $39 million, Nebraska some $32 million. Certainly the Republicans would have been in trouble without the soil bank, but with it these normally Republican states seem likely to stay that way. Most farmers like the idea of the soil bank; they clearly identify it with the Eisenhower Administration. They believe it is good for the land, good for income, and the first hopeful attack they have yet seen on the haunting...
This posed no problems for the U.S. Information Service. It selected some text and color spreads from current U.S. picture magazines and prepared to pour 50,000 copies of Amerika into Russia's state-run distribution system. But the Reds had plenty of trouble with publishing...
...Russians have leaned heavily on prefabricated building sections to offset the shortage of skilled labor, hoist them into place with eight-to ten-story-high cranes. Cracked one delegation member: "Anyone who calls it the Iron Curtain is outdated. It's the Concrete Curtain. Brother, do they pour concrete...
...President took the advice. Next morning he opened his news conference with an off-the-cuff statement that the U.S. is "waging peace." Said he: "There is no amount of money that you can pour into bombs and missiles and planes and tanks and guns that will assure you peace." It is more profitable to spend for "constructive things that tend to make people respectful of the great values that we are supporting." Thus, it would be "tragic" not to support foreign-aid programs "cheerfully and adequately...
...denigration-of-Stalin issue, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists lost more heavily than expected-several hundred thousand votes. But what Togliatti lost, his Socialist ally Pietro Nenni picked up. "It is like having a liter of wine and two bottles," said one former Communist cynically. "You may pour wine from one bottle to another, or back and forth as you like, but you still have the liter." One Italian voter in three was still voting the Communist line...