Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
...have plenty of able lawyers, but he obliged anyway. Then Bridges laid his own ideas on the line. "I don't want to leave you with any misapprehension of my position," he said. "Everyone knows that I'm friendly with Dick Nixon and that it is my present intention to support...
...acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never do. He has lost heavily on a company to build steel prefab houses (buyers did not buy) and another to tin tuna in Samoa (the fish did not bite...
Range v. Money. The exotic-fuel program was a casualty of Defense Secretary McElroy's drive to cut back all "marginal" defense work in an all-out effort to pare down the 1961 budget. It put an end to present hopes for boron-powered planes that would get 40% more energy out of a pound of fuel, thus increase their range (or speed) without adding weight. The Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion...
Frank story, he is also bidding to take over its emotional appeal. The difference: The Diary is an authentic human document; Eva, although powerful and credible, is a product of the present day and already a historical fiction...