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Postwar Career: His rise was meteoric. In less than two years he was Minister of Fuel and Power, responsible for nationalizing Britain's coal mines. (Urging fewer baths to conserve coal, he once joked: "Personally, I've never had a great many hot baths myself. Anyway, what'...
rate. The purpose is partly to conserve foreign-exchange holdings, but partly, too, to protect inefficient domestic industries whose prices are 10% to 15% higher than world levels. To keep these industries going, France charges low tariffs on raw materials it needs, but imposes duties as high as 33% to...
As he later found occasion to report in the Boston Traveler, "I knifed through the blazing surface and started to swim under water breast stroke, gliding as far as I could on every stroke to conserve my wind and strength."
Benson was, however, considering several new plans to ease the readjustment. One plan was a "lease-land" program, whereby the Government would pay farmers about $500 million a year rental to take about 40 million surplus acres out of production to "conserve fertility." Benson promised that there would be "no...
Every water expert knows that there is no quick and simple way to avert the threat of shortages. One proposed remedy is the regional water commission of nonpolitical experts to tackle the problem for an entire valley or watershed; such commissions are in operation in Boston, Los Angeles, suburban Washington...