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In eight years, the Agriculture Department spent more than half a billion dollars trying to keep up the price of potatoes. It burned them, gave them away, let them rot and tried dozens of other schemes of destruction. Finally, a year ago, Congress forced it to give up and let...
Sometimes the crisis through which Iran is passing depresses Mossadegh to the point of tears and fainting spells. Just as often, he seems to regard the state of affairs with a light heart. When he came to the U.S. to plead his cause, mercurial Mossadegh was so ready with quips...
Fleet Street buzzed with explanations. Even though he had doubled the circulation of the Mirror and boosted the circulation of its even gaudier Sunday Pictorial (5,000,000) almost 70% since war's end, many a Fleet Streeter thought he had tried to tackle too much. The Mirror has...
"Business as usual" cost the U.S. most heavily in planes, for which a third of the entire $94 billion arms appropriation was earmarked. As the year began, President Truman cockily predicted: "Within one year, we will be turning out planes at five times the present rate of production." Actually, the...
The plant had a special significance for New Orleans, which does not have much heavy industry. Kaiser is the first to run an aluminum plant on Louisiana's natural gas. Now that he has shown the way, New Orleans hopes that other industries will follow. For his new plant...