Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican leaders seemed calmly confident of their ability to maintain order and check Communism in Indonesia. At week's end, President Soekarno repeated that he had no intention of yielding to Communist pressure, but warned that the Communists in Indonesia would grow stronger every day that the Dutch put off granting real national independence...
...Chicago, where 132 lbs. is the maximum weight a race horse is required to carry, all-conquering Calumet Farm got ready to hear the cash register ring. It was different there from Belmont Park, N.Y., where last month the handicapper tried to put 138 Ibs. on Coaltown in the rich Sub urban Handicap - and Calumet refused to run him. At Arlington Park last week, carrying 132, Coaltown got his nose in front momentarily in the $27,800 Equipoise Mile. After that, he looked like just an other horse as he took a three-length trouncing from Star Reward, running...
Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown, worn-out Yellow River Farm in 1927, the county agent predicted that he would "perish to death" before he got a living out of it; now, with hired hands doing the work, Cope nets $11,000 a year...
...private housing program ever stirred up such a furor in Washington as Lustron Corp.'s plan to build 150 enameled steel houses a day-if the Government would put up the money. After some squabbling, RFC obliged. Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...
Obligingly, RFC put up another $10 million last July. By February, they again needed more. By the time RFC had put in $7,000,000-for a grand total of $32.5 million-it had embarked on the biggest government peacetime venture in prefabricated housing. But that was not the end. Gunderson said he understood that Lustron needs another $3,000,000 immediately to "tide them, over" for the next few months. After that Lustron would need about $1,000,000 a month to keep going until it reaches its break-even point of 30 to 50 houses...