Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operators had a wonderful setup for their scheme. Every year, CCC lends billions of dollars to farmers on their crops. CCC also buys crops, for the support price, holds them in Government-leased warehouses until the market price rises above the support price, then sells them. A handful of warehouse operators had been selling the grain when prices were high, hoped to replace it later with cheaper grain. But like the bank teller who borrows money from the till to play the horses and plans to pay it back when he hits a winner, many a warehouseman never got around...
...world Communism, with military power and with economic aid to friends in Europe and Asia. More specifically, it must push through an honorable armistice in Korea, act on the Japanese Peace Treaty, complete a network of Pacific security pacts, and help integrate the German Federal Republic into the defense scheme of Western Europe. On the domestic front, Truman soft-pedaled the Fair Deal, concentrated on defense...
...Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the West...
...educational policies of their institutions. The suggestions of the presidents' committee, even it some of the committee members have not always practiced what they preach, come much closer to striking at the fundamental evils of the present situation than does Mr. Jordan's program. And the Jordan scheme would be extremely difficult to administer, let alone enforce...
Uncle Sam tried another scheme to save Mossadegh from himself. Washington offered Iran $24 million in U.S. Point Four aid, plus another (estimated) $50 million for guns, planes and tanks. In return, Mossadegh had to agree, by the terms of the Mutual Security Act, that Iran would contribute to the "defensive strength of the free world." Again Mossy balked; after some frenzied haggling the U.S. emerged with a limp victory. It won a letter from Mossadegh reaffirming Iran's adherence to the U.N. charter; on that basis he would get the $24 million. Negotiations over the military aid continued...