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...Department of Agriculture sprawled and swelled partly because there was a real need for its services-spreading the knowledge and skills that have made the U.S. farmer the most efficient and richest in the world, and strengthening his vital position in the U.S. economy. It grew, too, because of bureaucracy's inborn knack for propagating itself. And it grew because farmers had come to realize that when they stood together, a cohesive one-fifth of the nation's voters, they could manipulate the U.S. Congress and plunge both arms elbow-deep in the vaults under Fort Knox. Lumped...
...Atomic Energy Commission told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers that several kinds of uranium ore are being mined in the U.S. on a large scale. More important for the nation's future, said Dr. Wright, are the traces of pitchblende, the richest uranium ore, that have been found. There is an excellent chance, he believes, that deeper drilling will uncover more...
Planted thick with seedling hints that help to explain Grant's military greatness, Lloyd Lewis' Volume I is biography's richest, most persuasive treatment of Grant's youthful years. As such, it is also profoundly unsatisfying, for it is the end of his work. Behind him Biographer Lewis left a pile of unused research for two or three more volumes...
With the beginning barely made, the Jefferson Papers already expose an attractive intelligence and a first-rate human being, open the door to what Historian Gilbert Chinard once called "the richest treasure house of historical information ever left by a single...
...Middle East will always be important for three reasons. First, its oil resources are among the richest in the world, and many nations are eagerly awaiting the full development of these resources. Secondly, this area has been of great strategic importance ever since the days of Hammurabi. Thirdly, the people of three religions want free access to the shrines of Jerusalem. For these reasons, the rest of the world is looking forward to a solution of the Middle East muddle and the assurance of a permanent peace there...