Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Present corn surplus: 1,132,000,000 bu., which cost the Government $1.8 billion, eats up $370,000 a day in storage fees...
...chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems-roads, water shortages, etc. -to be multiplied by still more millions of newcomers. In pride and awe, the chamber's California Population Study Committee reported last week on the migrant-swelled statistics (present est. pop. 14,400,000), again upped its forecasts of the near future...
...just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other way out" but to denounce the Berlin occupation agreements, hand over Russia's present supervision of Allied traffic from the West to its "sovereign" East German puppet state, and-as a "realistic" concession-leave West Berlin "for the time being" in the status of a "demilitarized free city...
...Soviet note, with a spurious mildness and plausibility, set out to court every color of German or European political opinion. ''Millions of Englishmen cannot forget the tragic lot of Coventry," or the Czechs, Lidice. Could the West be sure a rearmed West Germany "will not attack its present partners again?" Khrushchev's underlying theme was that he rejects German reunification. The Communists are there to stay in East Germany (see below), and the only kind of reunification that can be hoped for is a confederation...
...increasingly disturbed about the six-nation Common Market, the economic bloc of 160 million customers which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan two years ago plumped for a 17-nation European Free Trade Area to supplement the Common Market. The F.T.A. would...