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Word: waster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less loud in using the same disclosures to argue for its wholesale revamping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Lost: $177,000,000 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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