Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vultures in the Villages. But the week's worst horror was still to come-from Algeria itself. Eighty miles southeast of Algiers, a patrol-plane pilot noticed huts burning in Kouir Mechta, a quiet, untroublesome stone-and-mud village where the French had always had a cordial welcome. The French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local...
...expensive price-support system, said Fleming, has tended to keep cotton' production in the old, uneconomic mule-power farms of the Southeast, while retarding the natural shift of cotton growing to the low-cost, highly productive tractorized flatland farms of the South and of the irrigated Southwest and West. This keeps cotton prices so high that they provide an umbrella for foreign growers and a powerful incentive for consumers to shift to synthetic fibers. To cure the situation, Fleming advocated gradual reductions in U.S. cotton price-support levels, gradual removal of U.S. acreage controls, and gradual lifting...
...current U.S. "special procurements" in Japan but ultimately solvable only by finding new markets for Japan's growing and efficient industries. As Kishi put it: "Without prosperity in Asia, there is no prosperity for Japan." Kishi talked grandly of Japan's "capacity to extend assistance" to Southeast Asia, but Japan has in fact little capital to export...
...other 77% totally outside the benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus a few specialized cotton and tobacco districts, leaving relatively little for most Southeast, Middle Atlantic, Northeast and West Coast areas. Kansas soil-bank payments this year will average $736.47 per farm v. $24.96 for Virginia, only $1.37 for New Hampshire...
...French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...