Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after composing their differences, the Senate and House settled grudgingly on a foreign-aid appropriation of $3,766,570,000 in new money for fiscal 1957, approved expenditure of an additional $240,800,000 carried over from last year. Then, delighted to be rid of the whole thing after a go-around of four months, Congress sent the bill to the President...
...month) given them by the state, and explaining that they had lived in idleness too long to be expected to work. Two months ago, when the Indian tax bureau offered to buy the princes' palace as a new headquarters for itself, Yadavindra jumped at the chance to rid the neighborhood of his useless kinfolk. He signed the deeds and served an evacuation notice...
...clothes after Christmas-never! You lose valuable trade because you do not cater to people when they need things." For this, manufacturers last week blamed the department stores: "The store buyer doesn't think ahead. If it's a cold spring, she gets panicky, concentrates on getting rid of what she had, and won't reorder fresh stock early." The stores blamed manufacturers: "Try to reorder anything in May. The manufacturers don't think ahead...
...Committee on Meteorology also had worries. Nuclear power plants give off radioactive gases, some of which are difficult to control or get rid of. In the year 2000, the committee figured, the world's atomic power plants will be producing enough krypton 85 to raise appreciably the radioactivity of the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Other gases given off at fuel-processing plants, e.g., iodine 131, can do even worse on a local scale. The committee points out that unfavorable weather conditions around a processing plant can concentrate the gases intensely...
FARM SURPLUS will grow this year despite heavy Government sales. Though U.S. has got rid of almost $1.8 billion in surplus goods (15% more than last year) in fiscal 1956, increased buying because of lower farm prices boosted total hoard to $8.2 billion v. $7.1 billion at end of fiscal...