Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's reigning crime sensation, touted by Picture Post as "Scotland Yard's biggest investigation of the century," has been making headlines for a month: YARD PROBES DEATHS OF 300 RICH WOMEN; YARD PROBES MASS POISONING. Papers reported plans to exhume bodies, test cemetery soil, investigate wills and drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel...
...between 75% and 90% of parity, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson hopes that minimum acreage allotments (17.4 million acres in 1957) and marketing quotas (n million bales) will hold next year's crop to 13 million bales, or about this year's level. Furthermore, under the new soil-bank program Benson hopes that farmers will increase the number of acres taken out of production well beyond last year's 1,064,000-acre total. Though some cottonmen fear that only the poorest acreage will be allowed to lie fallow, and that farmers will produce as much...
...year beginning last July i, federal spending is estimated at $69.1 billion, up $4 billion from last January's estimate. Major factor in the rise: costs of the new soil bank and higher-than-expected expenditures to support farm commodity prices. More than offsetting that increase, however, was a $4.3 billion rise in the estimate of receipts, to $69.8 billion. Reason: a big spurt in personal income-and hence in anticipated income taxes-reflecting the continuing and growing prosperity. The net result for the budget is an anticipated surplus of $700 million, almost twice as much as predicted...
...Building, has repeatedly hailed the Federal Reserve system as America's greatest contribution to the science of government. Says he: "Money is at the heart and center of a flexible society. Too few of us realize how deeply the roots of the Federal Reserve are embedded in the soil of democracy, in the understanding that power over money, if abused, can be a tyranny which can destroy all liberty and freedom...
Natural Resources. Both advocate bigger and better soil, water and timber conservation programs, more support for the national-park system, more outdoor recreational facilities. At issue: the Democrats advocate more public-power projects and more Government control over the nation's resources; the Republicans believe their development must come through federal-state-local "partnerships," with all interested parties assuming equal responsibility...