Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunting for some other way out, the surplus-surfeited corn belt shifted its sentiment toward tighter controls. The Illinois Farm Bureau, biggest in the nation, voted for an unprecedented plan of compulsory acreage retirement, a sort of unsubsidized soil bank, plus a subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out Government-owned surplus grain to farmers who grow even less than their allowances. Iowa farmers leaned in the same general direction, set the stage for a rough-and-tumble battle at the American Farm Bureau convention in Chicago next week. Though none of the farm organizations brought forth really promising...
...fiery appeal was not enough in the face of the evidence. The nine men and three women needed only an hour and 25 minutes of deliberation to judge Citizens Councilman Lauderdale, a building supply dealer, guilty of what the prosecution had called "a diabolical scheme." The jury's proposed sentence: three years in prison, a $500 fine. He was the third of five accused Little Rock bombers to be convicted (another pleaded guilty), with trial of the fifth still to come...
...NATO concept. Upset by this, the smaller countries found a way to assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
...permission is granted, Harvard would become a significant part of the scheme and would put its faith in the venture of a pioneering group. The syndicate admits that it plans frequent mention of the Harvard name, raising the question of whether Harvard, which sponsors only amateur athletics, should be connected so directly with commercial sports. Furthermore, the University could not easily deny the use of its property later to other professional groups, once it allowed the Boston team to play in the Stadium...
...controls on everything in sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such...