Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuing for another year the present voluntary corn and grain reduction programs. Although the President had little choice but to sign the bill, it was a far cry from the program recommended by his Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Among the Freeman proposals turned down by the Congress: a scheme for setting up farmer-Government committees to set subsidy levels for each commodity...
...Beardens sat in stunned silence. Their wild scheme had obviously failed, and the captive Gilman, could see their desperation increasing. FBI Agent Francis Crosby boarded the plane to negotiate. Becoming hysterical, Bearden said that he would commit suicide before he would let himself be killed or captured. Seeing an opening, the Border Patrol's Gilman shot out his fist, dropped the older hijacker with an uppercut so powerful that it fractured his own fist. The FBI man and Simmons sprang on young Cody Bearden and, after ten grueling hours, it was all over. The Beardens, handcuffed, were...
...will also push Diem's agroville scheme. Under this program, scattered farm families were brought in from dangerous outlying areas to live in specially constructed developments where they could be more easily defended. Diem completed 26 agrovilles last year, but reaped nothing but antagonism when overzealous Diem men yanked peasants away from their fields just at harvest time, put them to work at forced labor to build the new agrovilles. To compound the peasants' anger, it frequently turned out that there was not enough room for them in the agrovilles that they had been forced to build. But Staley concluded...
...Rome. In September 1943, with invasion imminent, Italy wanted desperately to surrender to the Allies. The Italians under Marshal Badoglio maintained that the 82nd could capture Rome by making a surprise landing. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned Taylor and Air Corps Colonel William T. Gardiner to check out the scheme by going to Rome...
...reform failed and now the country, which was once self-sufficient, has to import more than half its food. With the same kind of rush, Fidel Castro grabbed Cuba's richest landholdings, turned most into cooperatively owned ventures. Food production fell immediately, and Castro switched to the Soviet scheme of state-controlled "People's Farms." But the People's Farms are not succeeding either, and fertile Cuba faces growing shortages of every staple, from arroz to polio...