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...support of basic farm prices at 90% of parity but had come out for 100% of parity. The distinct and, I fear, deliberate impression he had left was that he favored Government supports of 100% parity, while at the same time endorsing his party's platform pledge to abandon all production controls...
...Marquis, 63, and his wife, 58, are about to abandon their sumptuous life. The Marquis will shave his well-groomed head and don the rough cowl of a Benedictine monk, and the Marquise will forsake her finery for the simple habit of the Little Sisters of the Ascension. In a monastery in central France, he will till the land with his brother monks, eat the simplest of foods, rise at night to chant the office. She will nurse the sick and aid the poor in parts of Paris where on past visits her limousine never brought her. They will never...
...into the street as useless. There Avner Carmi-by now out of the service and once more a piano tuner-again found what he called "my plaster piano pal." When he saw that the insides had been ripped out with only the sounding board left, he sadly decided to abandon...
WILSON & CO., No. 3 of the meatpacking industry's big four, will shut down its Chicago meat operation, lay off 3,000 workers and abandon its 71-building plant scattered over 22 acres in the stockyards area. Main reason: because of improvements in transportation, refrigeration and communication, slaughterhouses are moving steadily closer to the range. To follow the trend, Wilson will spend $4,500,000 to expand and modernize plants in Omaha, Albert Lea, Minn, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...prevent peaceful reactors from blowing up. "[Despite] all the inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon a watershed and . . . make the reactor site itself a forbidden area for years to come...