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...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
...dirt-floored shack on Half Moon Mountain, in New York's rugged little Ramapos, Gilbert Pitt lived for 81 years. He spent a big chunk of that time warding off social contacts and modern conveniences...
With that kind of support A.T. & T.'s assistant vice president and chief negotiator, George S. Dring, had been able to stand rock-solid until the strike began to crumble. The first chunk had broken off when two Chicago affiliates kicked over the traces and returned for a $4-a-week raise. Then four independent New York unions settled for the same figure and went back through N.F.T.W. picket lines. When N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne conceded the end of his hopes for an industry-wide settlement and disbanded his National Policy Committee, the 30-day walkout collapsed with...
...That thing" was Helgoland-the tiny, mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...
...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...