Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislature, and after long months of lobbying, talked it into prohibiting both inheritance and income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
...Reversed its budget-cutting ways (all four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota's crusty Republican Representative Usher L. Burdick told his colleagues: "Now, if you want to legislate yourselves right out of control of this House, you get in here and oppose soil conservation...
Bargaining Points. For example, to placate Rhee (who kept insisting that he would accept no cease-fire that left enemy soldiers on Korean soil), the U.N. had demanded that 34,000 North Korean prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation be turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...Polish or Czechoslovak troops would set foot on South Korean soil (as guards for the unwilling prisoners...
...hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes best about: the sun-drenched Italian soil and a small boy's growing pains...