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...when Kentucky's Democratic Senator Earle C. Clements and Virginia's Democratic Representative W. Pat Jennings opened the floodgates with a bill providing that surplus food be made available in coal-mining areas with high unemployment. Since then the amount of free food has jumped tenfold, a total large enough to compete with grocers in many towns, bountiful enough to favor many who could hardly qualify as needy...
...their next sessions, U.S. firms in Canada will be permitted to sell up to 49% of their stock in the country where they do business and still qualify for the low 5% dividend tax rate. Canadians will then be able-and probably will be urged-to make a tenfold increase in their investment in U.S. subsidiaries in Canada...
...shipping, American Export Lines profits increased more than tenfold to $3.1 million, thanks largely to increases in cargo volumes, freight rates., postwar Government subsidies. Pennsylvania Railroad's $22.2 million net was its best first half, although high operating expenses caused June returns to slack...
...West Germany the Hamburger Abendblatt (circ. 310,000) prints daily reports of air radioactivity. Last week a banner headline screamed that the radioactivity of Hamburg's air had risen tenfold between July 3 and July 5. Not until the sixth paragraph did the Abendblatt's expert admit that the activity was still too low to do any damage whatever...
...buildings. He's not an educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody who isn't his friend"), all in all managed to chalk up quite a record: in 16 years, the University's research increased tenfold, its campus grew by $79 million worth of new buildings, its enrollment rose from...