Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson-approved proposals to set upper limits on subsidies to the big farms. Totting up the biggest outlays, he found that ten large operators siphoned off $3,447,902.81 in price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...
...destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most exposed age group: children under one year old (only 29% vaccinated), while fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with 27 million (60%) unvaccinated. Besides nationwide campaigns, authorities decided on crash programs in known soft spots where epidemics like last year's in Detroit are feared, especially in low-income groups...
...England ski conditions are reported generally good to excellent with some spring skiing. Rain or snow is expected this afternoon. New Hampshire--Cannon (Franconia) 6 to 45, good to excellent upper; Cranmore (North Conway), 20 to 33, spring skiing; Sunapee, 8 to 24, excellent; Mittersill (Franconia), 15 to 30, excellent; Wildcat, 26 to 46, good to excellent...
Vanguard II was the first big success for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Encouraged and confident, NASA outlined to Congress its ambitious program for peaceful space navigation. Some of its projects: ¶ An Atlas with a single upper stage to put a 3,000-lb. satellite in orbit (available soon...
...send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket, it should take 55,000 Ibs. to Mars...