Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of federal funds tied up in stored farm surpluses swelled from $3 billion in 1953 to $9 billion today, and Agriculture Department expenditures soared from $2.9 billion in 1953 to $6.5 billion in 1959 (1960 estimate: $5.7 billion). With that record on the books, it was small wonder that the President heeded the advice of farm-state Republicans: get rid of the hot potato by tossing it to the Democratic Congress...
...viewed by some as a qualifying round for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, drank up the sights in the fabled old Uzbekistan city of Samarkand. In his local ramblings, Lodge communed with the ages in the blue-domed ruins of the Bibi-Khanum Mosque, a 3½-acre wonder built by Tamerlane in 1399-1404 in memory of his favorite wife (of eight...
...fields close to Europe, plus new finds such as those of the Japanese, have caused some rulers of the older oil-rich countries to wonder just how much more of a squeeze they can put on the oil producers. With the world glut, and the new fields, they are beginning to realize that it is not enough just to have oil; they must also sell it, a job that gets harder with each new discovery...
...Resistant to the new wonder drugs...
...North Carolina's young-looking, wiry (5 ft. 10 in., 143 Ibs.) J. Spencer Love, 63, who sewed up a bunch of middling mills into one efficient producer called Burlington Industries, world's biggest weaver. By bringing in modern machinery and management and gambling heavily on the wonder synthetics, Spencer Love boosted Burlington's sales from $651 million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More important, Love has shown his fellow textilemen that high productivity...