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...Dream. The Republican 80th Congress sensed the obvious consequences of such ruinous economic nonsense. It passed the Hope-Aiken law of 1948, a step in the right direction. Money would have kept pouring out to the farmers in support prices ranging from a rigid 90% of parity on some products to as low as 60% on others. But Hope-Aiken never got into operation. Along came November 1948, and, with it, the Democratic Party's Big Dream. Although the Democrats had tacitly endorsed the 80th's switch to flexible price supports, the party turned...
...more than three years this land, in prewar times the rich French colony of Indo-China, has been suffering, on a lesser scale, the ruinous kind of civil war which won China for Communism. The Mao Tse-tung of the Indo-Chinese is a frail, but enduring comrade, who looks like a shriveled wizard; his nom de guerre is Ho Chi Minh (or One Who Shines). Chiang Kai-shek has no counterpart in Indo-China. The initial brunt of the Red attack has been borne by French soldiers. Meanwhile, the job of rallying native anti-Communist forces falls mainly...
College. The charge: stealing a five-shilling postal order. At ruinous expense, the boy's family fought official smugness and red tape to get him a fair hearing. In winning his exoneration, they also affirmed the right of the humblest citizen to demand justice from the state...
...roofs, the walls, and in one ruinous heap...
...land that he does work, Berlingieri-like most of Italy's other larger landowners-follows an ancient ruinous practice: he raises two wheat crops in succession, and turns the produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants can do no better; generation after generation they have worked their fields only on three-year leases, had to face expulsion from the land at the end of each three-year term at the owner's will. They never dared to invest years of labor improving a soil whose yield might...