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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water & Power. Little by little, Hollis Roberts added to his acreage until he quit his oilfield job for the farm full time. "If you want to start over, we'll start over," said his wife Manon. "If your heart's set on farming, you go right ahead." Every month he sent his Texas banker a $22 installment to pay off his Chevy loan. The cotton-gin owners liked him and staked him, and Roberts surged ahead. Today Cotton Rancher Roberts, with 7,000 acres, half owned, half leased, lives with his wife and two daughters...
...advocates acknowledge the immediacy of the criticism, reply that in the long run the future capital will have an opposite effect; i.e., by focusing Brazil's attention and energy on its vast, unexploited interior, the city will enrich the nation. Says President Kubitschek: "The hour has come-the start of a new era for our country...
...dish just a little bit too full for the American taste? Director Brooks suggested tactfully that Maria refuse some of those second helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height of Paris fashion-most of them made by Dior-but she had not bothered to take care of one minor detail: none of them had been properly fitted...
...laid out a staggering $7.3 billion for research and development, some 20% more than ever before. Every businessman knew that the money will eventually flood back to industry, as laboratory oddities turn into new consumer products. General Electric learned to make synthetic diamonds so cheaply that they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science...
...start, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy intends to boost defense spending at least $1 billion in the first six months. For fiscal 1959, there will probably be another boost of at least $2 billion (to $41 billion for actual defense spending), plus a $5 billion boost in the obligational authority for future defense contracts. The Administration hopes to hold down the totals by cutting such items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep...